Missing Students May Be 'Dead,' But Mexico Is Still Fed Up
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On Sept. 26, 2014, the 43 Ayotzinapa students went missing. On Jan. 27, 2015, Mexico's attorney general, Jesús Murillo Karam, officially declared the students dead, according to BBC News. 
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An announcement the government hoped would settle the qualm that had swept the nation in the previous months of uncertainty and lack of evidence was, instead, an announcement that only spurred more distrust for the Mexican gov't through tweets with #YaMeCansé Tuesday night.
Two months earlier, Karam held another press conference to address the missing students and the announce the investigation the Mexican gov't. would launch, one which included the phrase "Ya me cansé," or "I am tired."
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No one knew what exactly he was "tired" of—though he did allude at one point to having spent 24 hours reviewing the case—but Mexicans and people around the world took the opportunity to start a social media movement with #YaMeCanse. In the months ahead, the hashtag would help the general populace express what they were fed up with, with Twitter users often pointing to what they saw as Enrique Peña Nieto's corrupt administration and a Mexico notorious for violence and Narco-crimes.
Now is not the time for reforms; it's time to find our 43 missing kids." (@MartinBerlanga/Twitter)
— Martin Berlanga (@martinberlanga)
Four months later, Mexico has closed the investigation, concluding that the students were murdered by a drug gang, according to Bloomberg, but the hashtag is not dead. In fact, Tuesday night, it was reinvigorated after the public reacted to the announcement with apprehension and disbelief.
— Alfredo Zamudio (@1AlfredoZamudio)
The speculation stems from the fact that only one student has been identified using DNA, but investigators maintain that local police took the students hostage before handing them over to the Guerreros Unidos cartel who then killed the students and burned their bodies in a municipal dump in Cocula, Mexico, according to Bloomberg.
With the conclusion of the investigation, the 43 missing students have become a fraction of the 70,000 people the drug war in Mexico has killed since 2006, according to Al Jazeera. Mexican residents have now begun to use #YaMeCansé to incite change among themselves, not the president.
"Let's be conscious that the people responsible for choosing candidates is the general populace... #enough #imtired." (@citlali_aranda/Twitter)
— Zitla (@citlali_aranda)
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