National Popular Assembly at Ayotzinapa School to Define Future Mobilizations

Families of the 43 disappeared students convened a National Popular Assembly at the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Normal School in Tixtla, Guerrero. Social organizations, collectives, and civil society groups from across Mexico were invited to attend. The assembly was convened to define activities and mobilizations for the coming months amid what Tlachinollan described as the case being in 'an enormous deadlock.' Five months had elapsed since the last meeting with President Sheinbaum with no new meeting scheduled, the court-ordered Truth Commission (COVAJ) remained non-functional due to refusals by the CNDH and FGR to designate representatives, and the 853 military intelligence files had still not been delivered despite a federal court order. The assembly represented an escalation in the families' strategy of building broad civil society alliances to renew pressure.