Protests were held across Mexico this weekend to mark three months since the disappearance of 43 students in the state of Guerrero. Authorities say the students were seized by local police and handed over to a local drug gang, who executed them and burned the remains. Among thousands marching in Mexico City this weekend was Adán Cortés, an activist who interrupted the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo this month to call attention to the students’ case. Cortés told Democracy Now! the disappearances have taken a toll on the students’ families.

Adán Cortés: “I feel powerless. I would love to hand their children over to them, if they’re kidnapped, turn them over alive, and if they’re dead, at least hand over their bodies so they can pray over them. I feel a sense of impotence, and I also feel empathy for their anger. Just imagine what they must feel to not have any news about their children for three months. We’re not talking one week or one month. It’s three months, and they know nothing about their children. Anger and solidarity is all that I can feel in this moment.”