While thousands of people came out yesterday to accompany and support the parents of the 43 normalistas of Ayotzinapa on the ninth anniversary of their disappearance and massacre, the district judge prohibited the Undersecretary of the Interior, Ricardo Encinas, who is handling the case, from calling torturer Tomás Zerón, ex-secretary of security in exile in Israel accused of torturing prisoners.

This decision was taken by the magistrate even though a video filmed at the moment in which Zeron directed the torture to a false-positive so that he would admit that the boys had been murdered and charred in a garbage dump by the Guerreros Unidos cartel.

With that video, the government of Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018) concocted a farce and misrepresentation of the facts so that responsibility for the heinous crime would be blamed solely on the mafia cartel, according to allegations.

The objective was to hide the military officers who directly intervened in the massacre, the Iguala municipal government, free the executive branch of government from any responsibility, and close the case.

Zeron acted under the orders of former Attorney General Jesus Murillo, imprisoned for his involvement in the “historical truth” and the pact of silence between the perpetrators of the massacre, with the knowledge of Peña Nieto.

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