Ayotzinapa Explained

Ayotzinapa
Settlement Type:Locality
Pushpin Map:Mexico Guerrero#Mexico
Pushpin Label Position:top
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Mexico
Coordinates:17.5536°N -99.4103°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Mexico
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Name1:Guerrero
Subdivision Type2:Municipality
Subdivision Name2:Tixtla de Guerrero
Population Total:84
Population As Of:2010

Ayotzinapa is a locality located in the municipality of Tixtla de Guerrero, in the Mexican state of Guerrero in southwestern Mexico.

History

See also: Iguala mass kidnapping. The present locality of Ayotzinapa has its origin in a hacienda that received the same name and owned by Sebastián de Viguri. In 1813 in the nearby city of Chilpancingo, José María Morelos proclaimed the Sentimientos de la Nación, a document that deeply impressed Viguri, especially that part in which he called for «the poor's wages to be increased, to improve their customs, driving away ignorance, rapine and theft.[1]

Motivated by this and on his own initiative, on 16 September 1818, he distributed part of the land of his Ayotzinapa hacienda to a group of peasants without property, so that they could work it, and reserved another sector - among which was the old quarter of the hacienda ― so that it would be administered in such a way that, with the products and sales of the crops, the elderly, sick and disabled would be financially supported.[1]

Over time, these lands came to be administered for that purpose by the Tixtla de Guerrero City Council, until 1931, when teachers Rodolfo A. Bonilla and Raúl Isidro Burgos requested the land to establish a normal school on them, which until now that moment it worked in several rented houses in Tixtla; the City Council responded favorably and earmarked the land for the construction of what would be known as Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College.[2] [3]

Ayotzinapa attracted international attention because of the Iguala mass kidnapping that took place in 2014. [4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Viguri, Sebastián de . 25 October 2014 . Enciclopedia Guerrero.
  2. Web site: Burgos Alanís, Raúl Isidro . 13 October 2014 . Enciclopedia Guerrero.
  3. Web site: Datos históricos de la fundación de la Escuela Normal de Ayotzinapa . 25 October 2014 . Escuela Normal Rural “Raúl Isidro Burgos”.
  4. News: 2016-02-10 . Mexico missing students: Knowns and unknowns . 2024-05-12 . BBC News . en-GB.