Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Argentine Forensic Experts Doubt Mexico’s Probe of 43 Missing Students

The students' disappearance on the night of Sept. 26 in the southwestern city of Iguala has triggered massive protests in Mexico. Officials say they were abducted by corrupt police officers, who handed them over to a local drug gang.

In a document published on the website of Mexican human rights group Tlachinollan, the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF), which has been working to identify remains, detailed numerous problems with the government's handling of the case as well as the conclusions it has already drawn.

Late last month, Attorney General Jesus Murillo said there was no doubt that the students . . .

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