MEXICO CITY (AP) — Three members of Mexico’s army have been arrested for alleged connection to the disappearance of 43 students in southern Mexico in 2014, the government announced Thursday. Assistant Public Safety Secretary Ricardo Mejia said that among those arrested was the commander of the army base in Iguala, Guerrero in September 2014, when […]
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador promised Wednesday to investigate the disappearance four years ago of the 43 rural teachers college students, telling parents that his government won’t fear the truth. Lopez Obrador stood hand-in-hand with families of the Ayotzinapa students in an emotional gathering marking the day the students went missing
The U.N. human rights office said on Thursday that Mexican authorities had tortured dozens of people in connection with an investigation into the 2014 disappearance of 43 students, and it called for a full inquiry. Mexico said on Monday it had arrested a suspected drug gang member regarded as a key figure in the kidnapping
A panel of international experts on Sunday accused Mexico’s government of undermining their probe into the fate of 43 missing student teachers in Mexico, apparently massacred in 2014, the most notorious human rights case in Mexico in recent years. The independent panel said the government’s stonewalling stopped them from reaching the truth as they wrap
An international panel of experts that picked apart the Mexican government’s account of what happened to 43 students who disappeared in 2014 will cease work in the country by late April, a senior government official said on Tuesday. The 43 student teachers went missing from the southwestern Mexican city of Iguala in 2014, and their
A group of independent experts say satellite photographs show no signs of fire at a garbage dump in southern Mexico where a group of 43 students were supposedly killed and incinerated in 2014. The experts previously said they don’t believe prosecutors’ version that a drug gang incinerated the students’ bodies at a dump in the
“In our society, it’s more alarming to see a naked body, than to see a charred cadaver in column 8 of the newspaper.” Protesters came together to make a statement in Mexico by becoming human nude billboards with messages protesting the government’s handling of 43 missing student teachers that they now have concluded were killed
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
Mexican authorities on Sunday said that mounting evidence and initial DNA tests confirmed that 43 trainee teacher students who were abducted by corrupt police 10 weeks ago in Mexico were incinerated at a garbage dump by drug gang members. Attorney General Jesus Murillo told reporters that one of the students had been identified by experts
Today nearly 200 students, parents, children, and activists were on hand in Puerto Vallarta for the national day of protest demanding justice for the 43 missing students of Iguala. The students from a teachers’ college went missing after they clashed with police in Iguala in the volatile, gang-ridden state of Guerrero on Sept. 26. The
