Encinas Reveals Documents Confirming Disappeared Student Was Army Intelligence Infiltrator

Days after the CNDH's recommendation cleared the Army of direct involvement in the Ayotzinapa disappearances, Alejandro Encinas — who led the 2018-2023 Truth and Access to Justice Commission — released official Sedena documents on July 13, 2026 confirming that Julio César López Patolzin, one of the 43 disappeared students, was simultaneously an enlisted infantry soldier serving as a military intelligence 'Information Search Organ' (OBI) infiltrated in the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Normal School under a student facade. López Patolzin enlisted in the Army on January 16, 2009 and began intelligence operations at the school in January 2014, reporting to superiors via phone calls and periodic in-person meetings every five days. Documents show he filed activity reports on September 26, 2014 — the day of the attacks — before going missing along with his classmates; the Army continued processing his salary afterward. The CNDH maintains he was not an 'infiltrator' but a soldier permitted to enroll as a student under military regulations. The revelation directly contradicts the CNDH's conclusion that no military intelligence operation existed inside the school, reigniting demands from victims' families for Sedena accountability.