This is a really important case, which I think needs to be shared and I hope I did it justice! As I mentioned there is a lot of information and some conflicting information so if there are any important theories or points I left out please leave that in the comments!
Bella Fiori I always requested this case! So excited to see you cover it because it really needs more attention. You’re amazing I absolutely love when you do these videos❤️❤️❤️
Bella Fiori thank you bella!!! Thank you so much!!! You're platform is huge and i know people will now spread the word more about this case! Thank you so much!!!!
The class that the 43 students were part of graduated this year and their fellow students left their empty seats with their pictures to conmemorate them
There’s so many missing people in Mexico that on Mother’s Day, there was a huge march of women holding pictures of their missing kids and these students were amongst some of them. It’s very sad there’s so much violence and injustice in Mexico.
I think it's so sad that we won't see the true reason why the went missing, when I went to India I was 7, I saw a huge board of people who I had never seen before and written on there was missing in Punjabi, I didn't know what it meant because I couldn't read Punjabi at the time, but I knew something was wrong because my mum looked worried and said to my uncle to get out of there as quick as we can
@@soph5669 the really sad reality for a lot of countries. Imagine wanting to have a better education and protesting for it after being ignored by the goverment just to have ur life being taken away by bad people who only care about power and money
@Zane Normonta they also shot the kids that were there for the soccer game, it is not about what they did or didn't do to deserve to be imprisioned or whatever i mean stealing buses for example, yeah shouldn't have done that and there's no one defending that, it's about the fact that the police was so unorganised and unnecessarily agressive when they shouldn't have been. also kidnapping and possibly killing them was also so uncalled for when they committed minor crimes
@@samberry5500 most of the gang violence in America is because of Mexico? Last time I checked they didn't come over her and hold a gun to thousands of gang leaders here they chose to do it and why because of money. Because they want to feel empowered
@@samberry5500 Lmao your still with the Mexico brings crime to America when in reality it doesn't. Again you don't feel threatened leaving ur house but I can name thousands of people in America afraid to leave there house also. And you wanna know why there's so much drugs here because America is dumb enough to buy it and Americans who live here sell it. Mexico or in fact any country or cartel doesn't force people to use drugs they don't have time for it instead they find people who are willing to sell and take it which then Americans use and don't even say well that's how Americans get it most people don't have a choice many do and then take it. You probably don't know what it's like to feel threatened my best friend doesn't even like driving because she's afraid she would get pulled over and shot like both of her parents on SEPERATE occasion and no they were both innocent the camera on the cop caught it all and her parents were doing everything they were told but no what happened? The white cop only got a suspension. Before you say that Mexico is corrupted and has violence. America is the same damn thing only difference is that America doesn't take the blame for it and blames it on other countries
@@samberry5500 There's also slavery here in the U.S you think it's just the working on fields and the cleaning but people are also trafficked here in the U.S
One of them was my cousin, Magdaleno Ruben. We grew up together, I went to Elementary school with his younger brother. It still hurts. We didn't even had his body to cry on. We are still waiting for something. We are still waiting for answers.😐
Please do a mystery Monday on Princess Latifa, daughter of (I think) the Dubai prime minister. She tried to escape from Dubai due to him, her father, like February this year. And was captured, returned to him, and hasn’t been seen or heard from since. Upon her capture a video of her was released saying “if this is released I’m either dead or in a very bad situation”. Not many people know about it and it should be talked about more
Yes I watched a documentary last week which aired in England. She was definitely captured this year and has not been seen or heard from since! She left a video (that she recorded of herself) which was to be released if she was captured or disappeared. This is what the showed in the documentary! I'd never heard of it before now!!!
Yess I saw a documentary about it on UK tv the other week and at the end it had said something along the lines of she’s safe in Dubai which is really weird!!
Itsme Tanyaa I am so very sorry for your loss and your families. to lose your life simply because you disagree with a government and you haven’t injured nor hurt anyone is appalling. why doesn’t the United Nations ever get involved in Mexico there are so many human right issues and exploitation yet for such a big body they don’t seem to do very much.
I’m Mexican and I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for bringing this subject to the awareness of an international community like your following, I’ve gone protesting ever since that happened and it’s heartbreaking to say the least, especially when while marching the leaders will start counting up as though they were calling the roll in class and stop at 43
Makes my blood boil at how horrible and heartless you could be to shoot at innocent children saying that they were unarmed and just trying to go to a football match. How dare those police take away so many lives?
marlene ' i’ve been to mexico and it the US is not. They aren’t good either but the police in Mexico carry full on assault rifles instead of a hand gun. As well as it is really easy to bribe police in mexico. Give them 500 pesos (like 20 bucks) and they let you off. Every country has an issue, let both be spoken about equally :)
This is what some people don’t understand this is just one reason Hispanics immigrant to America. It’s sad. Then when we get here we are judge it isn’t fair.
I´m mexican and I remember when this case happened; everyone was so disturbed. There is a lot of information as you say, but mostly everyone believes the government kidnapped and tortured those students similar to the Tlatelolco slaughter. We can only hope one day justice will come for themselves and their families.
You should also look into the Tlatelolco Massacre in Mexico City 1968! Till this day there are so many unanswered questions with the killing of student activists.
There's a documentary about this case on Netflix, is very real, complete, and very moving, in case anyone wants to watch it it's called Ayotzinapa. I'm from Mexico and all the country was panicking when this happened, I was in high school and we had to end early the semester because there were people saying the same was gonna happen, it was a total caos.
Mildred Monroy If you’re from Mexico, your Netflix is not the same as the one in the US (they have different movies & shows). I still looked for it on Netflix just in case they had it, but unfortunately they don’t.
I have a story of something that happened to my dad while he was in Mexico and it’s kinda scary. So he was going to visit his uncle in a different City so he took a bus. He had gone to visit him many times before so this trip was very normal to him. He went inside and asked the lady to buy a ticket. She said the bus was full and that he would have to wait for the next one the day afterwards. He kept insisting and then she eventually said that she could make room for one more seat. He went inside of the bus and was surprised to see that only him and about 4 people were on the bus even though they said the bus was full. He thought that maybe they just got a new bus for the people that also wanted to go but couldn’t. He was looking out of the window and he noticed that they weren’t going the same route they always did. He already knew it from going to visit his uncle many times before. He thought they might just be taking a shortcut or something. He then fell asleep and woke up in the middle of the night. The bus wasn’t moving and it was parked on a soccer field. He looked outside the window and saw people loading off boxes into the compartment under the bus where the suitcases were supposed to be. He then accidentally made eye contact with one of the people loading the boxes off, he got a weird feeling so he looked away and closed the curtain and went back to sleep. He woke up the next day and they were almost there. So when they arrived there was a man waiting for him and he looked very excited to see him even though my dad didn’t know him. He was like “Come on follow me I’ll give you a ride for free!” My dad was said “No it’s ok I’ll just go over there and get a Taxi. The man kept insisting so my dad eventually said yes. I am very happy to say that afterwards a Taxi driver knew my dad from his past trips walked up to him and looked at him and shook his head and then said, “It’s ok I’ll take you” and then grabbed my dads arm and dragged him away from the unknown man. He then went into the taxi with him and explained everything that had happened the day before. The taxi driver said “Damn you were in some real trouble.” My dad then realized that the boxes they took out were probably filled with drugs and that he was NOT supposed to see everything that happened. So the man he made eye contact with called somebody and said he saw everything and the man insisting to take him was probably trying to kidnap him or maybe even worse, kill him. I’m very glad to know that the Taxi driver saved him otherwise I might not be here today. Please stay safe everyone and don’t trust anyone you don’t know.
Wow! What a narrow miss for your dad. Even in difficult circumstances people try to help and I’m glad the taxi driver saw what was going on and probably risked himself to keep your dad safe. I’m glad your dad made it safe.
just wow.. so scary to imagine being one of only 4 other passengers (that may not even be "passengers" but other bad/their people, as the tickets for this bus were probably not being sold at all) wake up in the middle of the night, in some random place you don't even know, and seeing what's happening and !!!making an eye contact that feels wrong with some guy outside!!! what? I get chills only thinking about that.. and you cannot do anything, you will not leave the bus there at night... so you are stuck in this bus with those people, with probably nobody on "your" side
I'm Mexican and when i saw the notification my heart sank to my stomach... thanks for giving this case the attention it deserves. We are still grieving our normalistas. NOS FALTAN 43.
In Mexico the amount of police corruption is unbearable, theres literally no one that can help you because they're either working with the cartel or afraid of them. It's a very sad situation especially since I always hear stories about people getting killed or going missing.
Sadly this is because they don't get paid enough to care to protect us (civilians), they accept 'mordidas' because they need that money and of course if they can have more money even if it's from the carteles, they are going to take it
yep. growing up in mexico I was told never to go to the police if I got lost somewhere or something happened, but instead to ask a family or pregnant woman for help. seems crazy, right?
Okay, but is no one going to talk about how there were four graves with tons of bodies (not from the 43 students). That's still a lot of bodies, and it needs to be investigated. This is such a heartbreaking case itself, and knowing that a lot more people died (maybe from it, maybe not), is just horrific.
The parents of the missing students went to my university to share the story and raise awareness of the corruption in the government and policemen. It was an intense presentation and those parents are so strong to do such thing. I love that you did this case! ❤️
I remember when this happened I was in Berlin and a Mexican man came up to me and my friends and told us about what happened. He then gave us a white postcard with the number 43 in bold black writing on it. Unfortunately I can't find it anymore but Sir, if you ever read this, thank you for talking about it on the other side of the world. We need people like you not staying silent. English is not my first language sorry for any errors :D
“They tried to bury us, they didn’t know we were seeds”. Thank you thank you Bella so much!!! I’ve been waiting for a youtuber who does true crime videos to cover this case! And you are the first to do it!! Means so much. 🇲🇽
As a Mexican student I want to say how grateful I am for you to speak about this case, its not everyday that a “true crime youtuber” picks up a case like this. Maybe it will do some good and more people with platforms and louder voices than those students will talk about this tragedy more and that might put preassure in the mexican government in solving and giving closure to the mexican people who we are still asking and praying for their return to their homes or at least for them to hopefully had found peace. Thank you so much, Bella for giving some light to this almost -and sadly- forgotten case.
Do Mexican RU-vidrs not talk about it? Just wondering. Because youtubers would mostly talk about cases local to them. Like in my country, tho they talk about cases from other countries too. It's like a bias.
you can ask any Mexican and they’ll say it was the government and the cartels working together that did this. the sad thing is the poor families of the 43 students know but cannot do anything because of the corruption. we can only hope this new president will bring a change. NOS FALTAN 43.
I remember a video that parents of the missing students released of them asking people for help to find their sons. They talked about how poor they are and how many of these men were the head of their house & who helped provide for their younger siblings. So tragic, to leave their families without explanation. Some parents expressed how everyday they still wait for their sons to come back while others want peace in knowing what happened to them 💔 Thank you Bella for shining light on such a tragic event that México will never forget
omen a IKR i don’t know why but the government is really scary they do things for no reason and we never know why so many things go on behind the government that we don’t know this world is fucked yo
You'd be amazed what isn't widely talked about. I was shocked and humbled when I went to college and realized how biased history truly is and what we never learn about.
The year this happened an Australian university helped with science lab to examine the “bone remains that the police found” to figure if it were from those students. I quote bone remains found by police bc these were false remains that the government itself put as a way to show the people they were investigating
@@yamilethortiz1534 I'll have to look that up! I was thinking during the video that it isnt, sadly, an uncommon thing for a mass body dump to turn up. Reminds me of Argentina.
Omg... students suffocating to death because 30 other people were piled up on top of them!! The guy who had his face torn off and eyeballs ripped out.. All because of a misunderstanding. WTF
this is very common in mexico. Sadly this is what happens to gang members who are considered traitors and want to leave. My dad is from one of the poorest places in mexico. This happens there almost once a month from where he is. The has been cases of trucks being piled with bodies of kids who had their organs taken out. This for Mexico is a reality that everyone rich or poor has to face.
Even if your alone in Mexico you have 100% of chance of getting kidnap so dont go alone trust me I've been their before I've been in Mexico I had a nightmare of someone getting kidnap in my street if your with someone you have to be in a group of 3 or more a group of 2 is still have changes of getting kidnapped
This is so heartbreaking and what’s even more heartbreaking is every single one of the comments in this video talks about how it hits home for them and how so many people can relate to this story. I never knew how many people were affected by this and reading the comments I now see it’s so much more than what I ever imagined. It’s not only the students or only the people who live in Mexico but also a lot of people in America and a lot of people who moved from Mexico to America are affected by this. It’s such a tragedy.
This hits me , our family fled mexico due to the kidnapping of my dad and making him empty his bank and taking everything from us , we left the moment he was returned , i never seen my parents more scaref . Now we've been in the US 12 years !!
Yes your very lucky you got him back from 99.9% of stories like that, that I've heard at least, families aren't usually that lucky. Usually your loved one that's kidnapped does all that and doesn't get to go home. Your very blessed cherish every single day
Salma Huesca Yeah, and now we’ve got Trump and his hateful “Christian” followers who want you ripped from the life your family built and earned here. Mexico needs major change and it’s corruption needs to be addressed by other nations for human rights violations. People don’t always want to leave the home they know and love, but violence and poverty (perpetuated by the government) forces people to risk their lives to flee. Just a sad world we’re living in, and it’s got nothing to do with imaginary borders..
I am so moved by your covering of this case. ❤️❤️❤️ This is SO important to Mexicans all over the world and there were times we felt like nobody outside really cared for these students.
The video is about poverty, a government just as dangerous to its citizens as any violent drug cartel, and the large group of students murdered by them.... so it makes sense why you would want to talk about your *aPpLe tV* Edit: This was darkly funny in my head; there is nothing wrong with owning or mentioning an Apple product at all ❤
‹depression autopilot› hi! i’m sorry if my comment seemed inconsiderate, that was by no means what my intentions were. i posted the comment only about 30 seconds into the video and i didn’t really second guess it by the end. i completely understand the juxtaposition it poses to the video and i am sincerely sorry if it came across the wrong way. i will edit the comment right now. 💛
At least those 14 students were smart enough to realise what was going on and collectively escape. God bless all the lost lives and all the people who went through those traumatic events
I don’t know how you manage to retain all the information and then explain it so well!!! Should become a Netflix series coz I would 100% be up for watching that😂 love u so much!!! Keep doing what ya doing ❤️❤️
Being Mexican myself, I want to thank you for bringing awareness. A lot of people don’t realize how serious this is. Thank you ❤️Prayers to all the families & my fellow Mexicans who knows someone missing.🙏🏼
Violet Brook you must be living in a dangerous area to be suffering like that. It’s just like in USA there is real bad neighborhoods even in the popular cities. Just have to know where to stay or live. Here in USA you have cops killing innocents, 30 year olds raping 9-15 year olds. Shoot outs in schools. It’s just as bad or worst. You guys block yourselves from what real is happening in this country
Samer Berry you reply to like every single comment saying the same exact thing. No one cares. You love to blame stuff happening in the US on Mexicans. For what? Why? I’m sorry that people literally migrate for a better life. I’m sorry that you see one bad thing involving a Mexican and automatically assume all of us are bad. You continue to say we’re “violent” & “wont stop until we dance in the blood or each other”. You said “you want to bring this violence to America, keep it there”. No. People are gonna take it wherever their voices are being heard. I’m sorry you don’t like us or think we only promote and cause violence but i can assure you that if anything, it’s the other way around. Thought we all learned that if we don’t have nothing nice to say to not say anything at all when we were young. Now quit being afraid of the truth. You’re a grown man, act like one.
I was on vacation in Mexico city when all this happened, it was chaos everyone went to the streets to protest, it was crazy, and it makes me so sad to say I myself am Mexican and our own people hurt each other to have things going their way, it’s all about power over there.
I hope with all my heart that you actually engage in activism work instead of just talking about it online ❤️ AMLO is an amazing leader backed with actions ( hes done more for the country in a week than pena nieto did in six years )who shouldn’t even be compared to a neoliberal like pena nieto . Hes working for his country as i hope you do too .
Yes ! Finally the president is taking this as a priority case, i hope families get answers and justice!!! I truly believe AMLO is going to make a difference in the country , I hope he don’t disappoint people who believe and supports him.
It feels kinda surreal that you are talking about something that happened in my country, something so near of me and so far away of you, I cant process that. It's so heartbreaking and overwhelming, and even though it became a well known case, it wasn't loud enough and a lot of media gave fake information because the government manipulated, missinforming a lot of people in Mexico and from other countries. Thank you so much for making this video, it means a lot💛
Alejandra Arellano Also forgot to mention that the classmates (or the generation in the school) of the 43 students graduated this year, and in the ceremony they put 43 chairs to commemorate their missing classmates
One of the main reasons I'm afraid of living here in Mexico is just that, THE MISSING PEOPLE. I was born and race here and the real world got me when my dad was kidnapped when I was 13 years old, now I'm about to turn 23 and this is something that people no even from my city (Mazatlan, Sinaloa) has talked about enough, it just passed and nobody did something. I developed social anxiety ever since and moved from Sinaloa to CDMX cause it was really all that I could do to kinda 'get over it' in that moment in my life 💔
I understand you. I had barely moved to Mexico in 2011 and my cousin got kidnapped in Guadalajara because of a debt my uncle owed the cartel from there. Luckily a different uncle had connections and was able to put fear into them to release my cousin. They told my cousin he had an hour to get out of the state or they would kill him. Later that week that cartel got hit hard. I don’t know what really went on, but that uncle with connections was El Chapo’s lawyer in Mexico before he was extradited to the US.
My family is from Iguala Guerrero and I go there almost every year. But ever since this case my mom hasn’t let me go back. It’s so sad to think that I can’t go back to Iguala without being paranoid about all of the Bad things that are happening there. It’s so dangerous!!!
I did a project on this story for my spanish college course!!! It’s so sad how Mexico’s govt. is so corrupt & how the parents never got closure for the dissapearance of their children 😢
I go to Mexico every year for the Summer and my family always tells me to watch out because it can get very dangerous. I always brush it off even though I have seen a bunch of red flags. This video made me want to stay with my parents at all times when I go.
Don't brush it off. As someone form mexico i can assure you anything can happen. Girls in mexico don't have to be "pretty" to be kidnapped or raped. Boys don't have to be gang members to be beaten up and left dead in the streets. It doesn't matter if your a 20 year old or a 90 year old. Mexico is a dangerous place where anything can happen and sadly not much can be done
Can you do the disappearance of Jenna Van Gelderen from Georgia . We went to school together, she pretty much “vanished “ while she was house sitting for her parents while they were out of town . Because she was over 18 the cops didn’t take it seriously and messed up so many things in the investigation . It’s been a year only her car has been found . It’s just crazy that this can happen in this day and age in a country where all of our moves seemed to be tracked . In a way it’s frightening that we could all be “Jenna” if not just local media picked up the story maybe she could be found . A lot of us are scared she could be being sex trafficked since that happens a lot in Atlanta .
Broken Silence I hope her family does as well , I only remember her as the girl that always waved at me I am older than her . I just hope nothing bad is happening to her while the word isn’t being spread . Merry Christmas
I will never understand why they were killed in such an outrageous way. There is no theory that justifies violence and the extreme bloodthirsty torture towards these students. Yes, they were rebellious and violent because the system forced them to respond in this way, but there is nothing that justifies something as extreme as killing them by literally skining them and burning them. That is literally pure evil and abuse of power. You can never justify such acts. The saddest thing is that we all mexicans know the truth but there seems to be no concrete answers, there is no real justice because the police and the justice system are in collusion with the crime gangs and there is no higher authority that can do justice when the same government that is supposed to protect the people is to blame for all this.
I’m a bit late but I think it’s because they stole a drug buss without knowing because cartels load up drugs in boxes and place them where the suitcases go so when they took that buss they where order to stop and kill them because they where going to leave the city with the drugs
@@demianguerra4206 that is correct. They shot the bus, shot two students (one of them died in the scene), and then when they realized they made a mistake, they took them so they wouldn't say anything. As of 2021, investigators found a chat (texts) between two police officer a drug cartel member. Basically the police gave the cartel the students so they could take them away to their quarters where they were tortured and killed.
Lucía Bravo this case is really sad and impactful and I hope they find all the students and there’s justice but unfortunately I think if they are found it will be as bodies not living people.
Thank you for covering this case. I lived in Mexico for several years and our government is what’s keeping us behind. Our people are amazing and our land is beautiful but our government is greedy and we are in a drug war. This means a lot to my people. You are amazing💖
Thank you so much for covering this, Mexico is so corrupt because cartels and the government get away with everything and it’s always the poor citizens that are paying for their wrong doings. As a Mexican myself i appreciate this video and you!
I’m a Mexican girl, and I’m really glad you chose to cover this case. It’s been so long with so many questions unanswered. I remember watching this story on the news when it first happened. I cried for days when I first heard this story because I’m a student who wants to teach others someday and it just hit me so hard that our Mexican government could allow this to happen to 43 students and their families. Please share this story and demand answers.
I was just in Mexico this past October and seeing the missing students posters was totally crazy. you covered this so well! thank for you shedding more light to this very important case.
I remember that I was in six grade when all this started, we had to suspend the classes, all because the parents of this 43 students had a strike. Now I’m in 10th grade until this day we don’t know exactly what happened
I don't know why but i could literally listen to Bella talk all day, about any subject even if its the most boring thing she could make it sound so interesting and exciting
I am from Mexico and I have been binge watching your true crime videos this week, you have no idea how happy it makes me that you took the time to make this video, thank you so so much!! This case NEEDS TO BE KNOWN Also in case you want to share more latinoamerican cases, one that's similar to this one is the Restrepo Brothers, is from Ecuador, their story needs to be told
I’m so happy about you sharing this with all the world basically, because in Mexico nobody really talks about it, and the government every time tries to hide the case or make it look like nothing “bad” really happened, but to this day in the central streets of CDMX (Mexico City) families are protesting, and yet nobody talks about it
I love you so much for making this video. As a proud Mexican, I love that you took your time on this case to spread awareness to your subscribers. Much love❤️
As a fellow brown and proud follower it makes me so proud that you took the time to cover a story that has to do with my country. Thank you so much for covering this case 🇲🇽.
I live in Mexico and this was a HUGE case. You did not pronounced a lot of words right and I am in no need to correct you because I know it’s not your language. I can’t believe there’s people that feel offended because you can’t pronounce some words right.. 🤦🏽♀️
Itsyagurlnoor obviously... but she can still make the A sound, she just doesn’t know how the word pesos is pronounced. She’s probably only ever seen it written and assumes it’s pronounced as peesos
I remember my parents talking about this. It was all over the mexican news, its sad, a lot of family members are trying to still look for them or their bodies. Like always, the government in mexico did this again. They are really corrupt over there, if you pay police they will keep quiet and help. Its sad.
FINALLY!!! I only watch Buzzfeed unsolved and you when it comes to true crime. I have been commenting forever now on Buzzfeed to cover this. I'm really informed on this case, but the thing is, I just don't like to search and search on many outlets to piece many things together. THANK YOU
Ana Sanchezb there is a documentary on Netflix called Ayotzinapa (el paso de la tortuga) I think is very thorough. There is also a Mexican periodist Anabel Fernández she’s been in the case hard core and she has uncovered many things.
Bella, thank you for covering this case and using your platform to shed more light into it. My family is from Mexico and I remember when this happened. Violence caused by the state towards activists is something very common and we must never forget about our 43 brothers. The struggle continues, pero hasta la victoria siempre.
I am mexican, this case really moved mexican people, families are still fighting to know where their sons are, this was such big news in here, it was really sad, and mexican people opened theireeyes to reality of the government, sadly, we might never seen them again :(
Almost five years since this tragedy and I can’t imagine what the families are thinking. I’m Mexican American and I continue my education for the 43. It’s not fair that Mexicans aren’t encouraged to get an education. You know why? Because education really is power and that’s what the government is afraid of.
