Lacking faith in gov't, parents of missing Mexican students appeal to cartel

Lacking faith in gov't, parents of missing Mexican students appeal to cartel

E. Eduardo Castillo, The Associated Press
Published Wednesday, April 1, 2015 9:12PM EDT

MEXICO CITY -- Some of the families of 43 college students missing in southern Mexico since September say desperation and a lack of confidence in the government drove them to appeal to the leader of a drug gang for help in locating their sons.

After months of investigation, Mexican officials concluded a different drug gang killed and incinerated the young men. But six months after the disappearance, and with only one of the missing identified through a bone fragment, parents are asking the leader of a rival gang to share what he knows.

A banner hung Tuesday near Iguala, the city where the students disappeared, asks Santiago Mazari Hernandez, the alleged leader of Los Rojos gang, to "help us find our sons." Mazari had seemingly offered assistance to the families through his own signs hung in February.

"We are desperate and wherever the information comes from we will accept it, but it has to be true, too," Epifanio Alvarez, father of missing student Jorge Alvarez Nava, said Wednesday.

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