Eleven years after her son vanished, Delfina de la Cruz vented frustration at the unsolved disappearances of 43 Mexican students who were allegedly kidnapped by drug traffickers while authorities turned a blind eye.
The students from the Ayotzinapa teacher training college -- whose members have a history of political activism -- had commandeered buses to travel to a demonstration in Mexico City when they went missing on September 26, 2014.
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