Aldo Gonzalez He left the university, ready to go home. On the afternoon of Saturday, April 13, he sent the last message to his family. He wrote something innocuous, everyday, ordinary, the type of message sent by someone who doesn’t know they are about to disappear: ‘I’m at school.’
Aldo no longer read the answer, his trail disappeared and the life of the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) It continued its course as if nothing had happened.
A missing student, a life in parenthesis and a family that has taken to the streets to demand the young man’s appearance alive.
On April 18, students and colleagues of the young man from Aldo, carried out a strike at the University Center for Health Sciences (CUCS) of the University of Guadalajara (UdeG)to demand a response from the authorities.
Ten days after the student’s disappearance, The rector of the UdeG, Ricardo Villanueva, assured that there is no evidence of an uprising, but not that the student disappeared of his own free will. ‘To date there are no signs of a forced disappearance, and that is hopeful,’ he said.
Jalisco, red light in forced disappearances
Jalisco It is the first state of forced disappearances in Mexico. Only in this entity are there 14,704 people not locatedaccording to figures from the Information System on victims of Disappearance.
This new case has paralyzed Jalisco and brought to mind the memory of a collective trauma. At the UdeG there are 22 missing students. The leader of the University Student Federation (FEU), Zoé García has made a demand to the authorities: ‘They are responsible for security, that they start doing their job, act and investigate and find, that is the demand that we make from the organization’.
