For an aggrieved father, the New York City marathon is more than a race

For Brooklyn’s Antonio Tizapa, whose son was among the 43 students who vanished in Mexico four years ago, Sunday’s New City Marathon is a mix of therapy, protest and elegy

For Antonio Tizapa, the New York City marathon is more than a race. It is how he keeps his body healthy to heal his injured soul. Tizapa began running the marathon three years ago after his 19-year-old son Jorge Antonio Tizapa Leguideño disappeared in Guerrero, Mexico – one of the 43 students abducted by Mexican authorities on 26 September 2014 and never heard from again.

The mystery of what happened to the students from the Ayotzinapa school for teachers – who were disappeared after commandeering several buses to go to a protest in Mexico City – remains unsolved. Investigations by journalists and human rights researchers suggest a massacre was carried out by the Mexican army and police linked to drug traffickers.

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