Inside the Mexican College Where 43 Students Vanished After a Violent Encounter With Police

*A more complete picture is beginning to trickle out of Mexico of the protest, the students, the alleged collusion between police and organized crime, and the events that led to the disappearance of dozens of students in the state of Guerrero. VL

By Melissa del Pozo, VICE News

The minute they heard their son was one of the missing normalista students believed to have been killed by police in Mexico, Manuel and Hilda González got on a bus and traveled nine hours to make it here, the Raul Isidro Burgos Ayotzinapa Normal School, in the southern state of Guerrero.

Their son, César Manuel González Hernández, is 19 and a second-year teaching student at Ayotzinapa, a Revolutionary-era rural teachers college known nationally for the ardently leftist politics that guide everything the students do and study.

César is now among the 43 normalista students missing since September 26, when a series of chaotic police attacks left six people dead in the city of Iguala, Guerrero.

His parents, campesinos from the state of Tlaxcala, made it to the Ayotzinapa campus with more cash in their cell phone’s credit line than in their pockets, they said, and not much else.

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[Photo by @SauloCorona, Twitter]

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