The Instruction: How the López Obrador Administration Blew Up the Ayotzinapa Investigation

Mexico’s president promised to deliver truth and justice for the 43 disappeared students and their families. The former special prosecutor reveals what happened instead By John Gibler On Friday, August 12, 2022, Alejandro Gertz Manero, the octogenarian attorney general of Mexico, called the then head of the Special Investigation and Litigation Unit for the Ayotzinapa Case (UEILCA), Omar Gómez Trejo, to his office. “Omar,” Gómez Trejo said the prosecutor told him, “I need a favor, a worksheet where you tell...