Alive You Took Them: Searching for the Ayotzinapa 43

by Xavier Corro and Andalusia Knoll Soloff Justseeds 04/2023, booklet SKU: n/a   On September 26, 2014, in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexican police kidnapped and forcibly disappeared 43 students from the Ayotzinapa teachers college. Two years later they still have not been found. ALIVE YOU TOOK THEM: SEARCHING FOR THE AYOTZINAPA 43 is a graphic novel about a group of parents’ tireless search to find their sons. It is an illustrated story of human resilience and a graphic bet against impunity. The case of Ayotzinapa has come to represent the failed “war on drugs”, the battle for public education and a struggle of those from below to construct a country where they matter. Through the stories of the survivors of the attacks, the parents who search for their disappeared sons and the journalists who report on the case, this book recounts the attack in Iguala, where the reality surpasses fiction, as well as the lies of the Mexican government to cover up the case and the national and global support