Mexico City, March 16 (teleSUR-RHC) Parents of the forcibly disappeared 43 Ayotzinapa students are currently in the United States where they are appealing to Mexicans living in the country as part of a campaign to raise awareness about the case.

Felipe de la Cruz, a representative for the victims families and father of one of the missing students, announced that they will split up into three groups that will cover the whole country.

He added that they expect to meet with representatives of human rights and social organizations, as well as political officials.

For more than five months, the families and their supporters have demanded the return of the missing youth who were disappeared by members of the municipal police in Iguala, presumably under the orders of the now detained mayor, Jose Luis Abarca and his wife Maria de los Angeles Pineda.

The remains of one of the 43 missing students, Alexander Mora, were identified by a forensic scientist from Austria.