In New York City, the father of one of the 43 Mexican students who went missing from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College in the Mexican state of Guerrero more than one year ago is launching a 48-hour hunger strike today at the Mexican Consulate to demand an end to violence and impunity in Mexico. Antonio Tizapa is the father of Jorge Antonio Tizapa Legideño, who went missing along with the other students on the night of September 26, 2014, after being attacked by local police. The Mexican government has claimed the students were killed and incinerated by a local drug gang. But Mexican news reports and an independent investigation have cast doubt on the Mexican government’s account and pointed to the role of the Mexican military and federal police in the students’ disappearance. Tizapa says his fast also seeks to bring attention to the Mérida Initiative, the multibillion-dollar U.S. program used to fund the so-called war on drugs in Mexico, which has led to more than 100,000 deaths and disappearances over the last decade.