Attorney General Jesus Murillo said three new detainees admitted setting fire to the group, some of whom were still alive, in a rubbish dump near Iguala in the state of Guerrero, where the students went missing on Sept 26 after clashing with police. Dozens of police have also been arrested. Mexico’s government is still waiting […]
Following a five-hour meeting with the president, relatives of the students abducted by police in late September in the southwestern city of Iguala dismissed his efforts to find the missing and said their patience was running out. The disappearances have become arguably the sternest challenge yet to face Pena Nieto, who took office two years
Mexican authorities have captured the suspected leader of the Guerreros Unidos gang, which was allegedly involved with corrupt police in the disappearance of 43 students, officials announced. Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam said on Friday that the arrest of Sidronio Casarrubias would open a “new line of investigation” to find the college students who have
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and relatives of 43 students of Ayotzinapa College Raul Isidro Burgos during a meeting in Mexico City, Mexico. September 26, 2018. | Photo: Reuters The president-elect met with relatives of the victims on the fourth anniversary of their disappearance. Relatives of Mexico’s 43 missing Ayotzinapa students have held a private meeting
Mexico has widened its investigation into the abduction and apparent massacre of 43 trainee teachers in the southwestern city of Iguala in 2014 to examine the role of federal and state police, a federal prosecutor said. During the first year of the investigation, authorities focused on the municipal police in Iguala and the nearby town
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Six of the 43 college students “disappeared” in 2014 were allegedly kept alive in a warehouse for days and then turned over to the local army commander who ordered them killed, the Mexican government official leading a Truth Commission said Friday. Interior Undersecretary Alejandro Encinas made the shocking revelation directly tying
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Federal prosecutors said Friday they have arrested the attorney general in Mexico’s previous administration on charges he committed abuses in the investigation of the 2014 disappearances of 43 students from a radical teacher college. Prosecutors also announced they had issued arrest warrants in the case against 20 army soldiers and officers,
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Truth Commission established to clear up the 2014 disappearances of 43 students in southern Mexico said Thursday the army was responsible at least for not stopping the abductions because a soldier had infiltrated the student group and the army knew what was happening. On Sept. 26, 2014, local police from
Relatives and friends of the missing students mark 43 months since their disappearance in Mexico City, April 26, 2018. | Foto: EFE The families of the 43 missing students still believe they will find their children alive. Mexico marks Wednesday, Sept. 26, four years since the disappearance of 43 missing Ayotzinapa students, as relatives and
Mexico marks Wednesday, Sept. 26, four years since the disappearance of 43 missing Ayotzinapa students, as relatives and friends continue searching for their loved ones with almost no help from Mexican authorities. They have repeatedly refused to believe the official narrative that the students were kidnapped by Iguala police on the command of Mayor Jose
