Yesterday, Mexico's Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam, held a press conference to announce that his office believes it has located the remains of the 43 missing teacher training acadamy students, known as normalistas. The normalistas have been missing for more than a month, after they were reportedly rounded up by municipal police before a planned political manifestation in a small town in Guerrero and turned over to members of organized crime and murdered. A month long search recently resulted in the capture of the fugitive mayor and his wife, who were reportedly the master minds behind the massacre.

During the press conference which was delayed forty minutes, the Attorney General announced that his office, which is charged with investigation of the massacre, had found the bodies belonging to the missing students. He stated that captured suspects had led them to a river where the remains were dumped, after they were incinerated in a trash dump for more than twelve hours. A final determination will be made after a specialized test lab in Europe has confirmed the DNA of the charred bones, but at the press conference no additional lines of investigation were discussed and it appears as though the office of the Attorney General believes their investigation has found what it was looking for.

After opening the floor up to questions from the reporters and taking little over 15 minutes of questions, as the moderator was about to move on to another question, the Attorney General interrupted and said "Muchas Gracias. Ya me Canse", which translates to "Thank you. I am Tired" but can be better interpreted as "Thank you. I am fed up".

The comment coupled with his facial expression of sarcastic frustration was clearly a faux pas and is the proverbial straw that breaks the camel's back in the month long saga surrounding the massacre at Ayotzinapa. The expression was immediately transformed into a social media hashtag, #YaMeCanse, and Mexicans took to the streets and social media bearing the tag to express that they too are fed up with the level of crime and impunity in this country.

Online Memes and expressions of outrage filled news feeds with the hashtag, and outrage about the fact that the Attorney General – who is charged with the task of tirelessly seeking justice on behalf of the people of Mexico – cannot answer the questions that arise after presenting the nation with half-baked conclusive findings.

Parents of the missing children immediately denounced the findings, stating that they will not take this as a conclusion in the case of their missing children unless DNA is positively matched with these remains and more answers are given.

Many also commented that they believe that the announcement was a ploy to enable Mexico's President, Enrique Pena Nieto, to go on a planned tour of Asia and Australia – as a sort of way to justify his leaving the country now that "the case has closed".

The expression has become a sort of ironic epitome of the frustration of the Mexican people, not only as it relates to the massacre that occurred over a month ago in Ayotzinapa, but with crime, violence, and impunity in general, with statements like, "Mr. Attorney General, Mexico is also fed up!" filling up news feeds.

And while the findings of this investigation are not clearly conclusive, what is clear is that if the press conference was supposed to quash the outrage over the massacre, it has only further ignited it.

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