Father of missing Ayotzinapa student dies without finding son, UN offers condolences

Francisco Rodríguez Morales, whose son Everardo Rodríguez Bello was among the 43 students who vanished in 2014, has died without ever knowing what happened to him. His wife, Minerva Bello, passed away in 2018 with the same unanswered questions.

The disappearance of the students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College in Guerrero has remained a deeply painful and unresolved issue for over a decade. Families continue to demand truth, justice, and the location of their children, but official investigations have been plagued by inconsistencies and obstacles.

Human rights organizations, including the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Center (Centro Prodh) and the UN Office in Mexico, have expressed solidarity with the Rodríguez Bello family. These groups have accompanied the families, documented irregularities, and questioned previous government narratives, such as the "historic truth" presented by former President Enrique Peña Nieto's administration.

The case gained international attention and involved the work of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI). Despite these efforts, the full truth behind the students' abduction and presumed deaths on the night of September 26-27, 2014, in Iguala and Cocula, Guerrero, has not been fully established.

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We regret the death of Don Francisco Rodríguez Morales, father of Everardo Rodríguez Bello, one of the 43 disappeared students from #Ayotzinapa. Don Francisco, like his wife Minerva Bello in 2018, died without knowing Everardo's whereabouts. Our solidarity with...