Agents from the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) arrested Lambertina Galeana Marín, former president of the Superior Court of Justice (TSJ), yesterday in Chilpancingo, Guerrero. The official was aware of the content of the videos from the cameras installed in the Iguala Palace of Justice, from where police took a group of students. However, she is accused of ordering the destruction of videos from the night of September 26th, 2014—when the 43 students disappeared—captured by the Palace’s exterior cameras, arguing that the images “were not clear due to technical problems.”
Galeana Marín is accused of forced disappearance in the case of the 43 Ayotzinapa student teachers in 2014. After her arrest, the 79-year-old former magistrate, who retired earlier this year along with other former Supreme Court justices, was taken by ambulance to Mexico City for medical reasons.
On another note, it was also announced yesterday that teacher Jonathan Maldonado Hernández, an Ayotzinapa student teacher and survivor of the 2014 Iguala attack, who lost several fingers on his right hand due to a gunshot wound, died earlier this month in a hospital.
This was reported by the National Collective of Survivors of the Ayotzinapa Case, which denounced that despite Jonathan’s “outstanding” participation in the investigations, “he died completely abandoned by the authorities,” mired “in despair, struggling with depression and anxiety for many years, with the stigma of having survived the attack.” During his final days, Jonathan was hospitalized in a private hospital, as assistance from public health institutions “was nonexistent.”
Original article at Educa Oaxaca, May 15, 2025.
Translated by Schools for Chiapas.