Crisis in Mexico: the government is killing students - again
October 28, 2014 4:37 PM Subscribe
Something happened the night of September 26th, 2014 near the town of Iguala, 100 miles from Acapulco, Mexico. According to The New Yorker: “Scores of uniformed municipal police and a handful of masked men dressed in black shot and killed six people, wounded more than twenty, and rounded up and detained forty-three students in a series of attacks carried out at multiple points and lasting more than three hours [...] The forty-three students taken into police custody are now ‘disappeared.”
All 43 students, all young men who were studying to become rural teachers, are still missing, presumed dead.
In the search for the students, a month later several (at least 4) clandestine massive burial sites have been found in the area, and, despite them holding many unidentified bodies, none were the bodies of the 43 students. The search continues today in a new recently found burial site, as Elizabeth Malkin at the New York Times, writes: "The disappearance of the students has created a political dilemma for President Enrique Peña Nieto, who has sought to play down the issue of drug violence while he has tried to focus on the economy. But the search for the students has consumed Mexican public opinion. Their disappearance has set off violent protests in the state of Guerrero, where they were arrested, and demonstrations in much of the country, including a march by tens of thousands of people in Mexico City last week. The unrest forced the resignation of Guerrero’s governor, Ángel Aguirre, last week. On Monday, the interim governor, Rogelio Ortega Martínez, a sociologist and former university administrator with a background in the state’s leftist movements, met with Mr. Peña Nieto. Although Mexico’s drug war over the past eight years has produced many massacres that have horrified the country, the students’ disappearance has resonated particularly strongly because the investigation has revealed how effectively the drug gang had penetrated local government."
While many agree that José Luis Abarca, former mayor of Iguala, and his wife are to blame for the dissapperance of the 43 students, the protests have been pointing at the federal government as a whole as the guilty party, both on the streets and in the federal congress: "The State is guilty".
Meanwhile members of the government have been pointing at other several levels of government, both local and state, and other political figures (including a former presidential candidate through [link in Spanish] a photo printed today by an officialist newspaper) in what many say is an attempt to cover up what could very well be a narco-state, and thus, a failed country. Even the White House has recently expressed its concern in this regard [link in Spanish].
The protests are taking place every day in the streets now, many university students have now joined the protests. They hold the photos of the 43 students and chant: "You took them alive, we want them back alive!"
The killing of students and dissidents is, sadly, nothing new in Mexico, specially in the southern state of Guerrero. It was from that very same school that Lucio Cabañas came out as the head of one of the first guerrillas against the mexican government in the 70's, who was ultimately killed near the town of El Paraíso. A few years before, in 1968, a few days before the start of the Olympic Games, the government had killed between 30 and 300 students in Tlatelolco to quell massive protests. In 1971, in what became known as the Corpus Christi massacre, the goverment killed 120 students near a metro station in Mexico City.
More recently, and besides the multple crimes commited by the cartels and crime gangs, the government has been accused of commiting the Acteal massacre, the Aguas Blancas massacre (near Iguala) in which 17 farmers were killed, the massive human rights violations at Atenco (including accusations of torture and rape), and the very recent Tlatlaya massacre, in which the mexican military executed at least 12 people.
In the search for the students, a month later several (at least 4) clandestine massive burial sites have been found in the area, and, despite them holding many unidentified bodies, none were the bodies of the 43 students. The search continues today in a new recently found burial site, as Elizabeth Malkin at the New York Times, writes: "The disappearance of the students has created a political dilemma for President Enrique Peña Nieto, who has sought to play down the issue of drug violence while he has tried to focus on the economy. But the search for the students has consumed Mexican public opinion. Their disappearance has set off violent protests in the state of Guerrero, where they were arrested, and demonstrations in much of the country, including a march by tens of thousands of people in Mexico City last week. The unrest forced the resignation of Guerrero’s governor, Ángel Aguirre, last week. On Monday, the interim governor, Rogelio Ortega Martínez, a sociologist and former university administrator with a background in the state’s leftist movements, met with Mr. Peña Nieto. Although Mexico’s drug war over the past eight years has produced many massacres that have horrified the country, the students’ disappearance has resonated particularly strongly because the investigation has revealed how effectively the drug gang had penetrated local government."
While many agree that José Luis Abarca, former mayor of Iguala, and his wife are to blame for the dissapperance of the 43 students, the protests have been pointing at the federal government as a whole as the guilty party, both on the streets and in the federal congress: "The State is guilty".
Meanwhile members of the government have been pointing at other several levels of government, both local and state, and other political figures (including a former presidential candidate through [link in Spanish] a photo printed today by an officialist newspaper) in what many say is an attempt to cover up what could very well be a narco-state, and thus, a failed country. Even the White House has recently expressed its concern in this regard [link in Spanish].
The protests are taking place every day in the streets now, many university students have now joined the protests. They hold the photos of the 43 students and chant: "You took them alive, we want them back alive!"
The killing of students and dissidents is, sadly, nothing new in Mexico, specially in the southern state of Guerrero. It was from that very same school that Lucio Cabañas came out as the head of one of the first guerrillas against the mexican government in the 70's, who was ultimately killed near the town of El Paraíso. A few years before, in 1968, a few days before the start of the Olympic Games, the government had killed between 30 and 300 students in Tlatelolco to quell massive protests. In 1971, in what became known as the Corpus Christi massacre, the goverment killed 120 students near a metro station in Mexico City.
More recently, and besides the multple crimes commited by the cartels and crime gangs, the government has been accused of commiting the Acteal massacre, the Aguas Blancas massacre (near Iguala) in which 17 farmers were killed, the massive human rights violations at Atenco (including accusations of torture and rape), and the very recent Tlatlaya massacre, in which the mexican military executed at least 12 people.
Thanks for this. I'd been hearing about it but didn't know any details.
The suspected reason the former mayor did this is petty beyond belief, even if the students were to be found alive. What a fucking miserable tragedy.
posted by showbiz_liz at 4:53 PM on October 28, 2014 [2 favorites]
The suspected reason the former mayor did this is petty beyond belief, even if the students were to be found alive. What a fucking miserable tragedy.
posted by showbiz_liz at 4:53 PM on October 28, 2014 [2 favorites]
From a couple weeks ago: pictures of protests.
The lack of US media attention to this whole issue is really incredible. Thanks for the post.
posted by Noisy Pink Bubbles at 4:56 PM on October 28, 2014 [8 favorites]
The lack of US media attention to this whole issue is really incredible. Thanks for the post.
posted by Noisy Pink Bubbles at 4:56 PM on October 28, 2014 [8 favorites]
I hear a little about this because I'm in Texas. Not enough, though. Thanks for posting.
posted by immlass at 5:01 PM on October 28, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by immlass at 5:01 PM on October 28, 2014 [1 favorite]
George Bush Sr. said it worst: the American way of life is non - negotiable. That was a general fuck you to the rest of the world about our consumption of, well, everything. We consume and demand the drugs, and continue to insist that they wage a drug war and we help "divide and conquer" by picking and choosing cartels, who through Katamari Damaci conquest become larger and more powerful entities than the government. Are we really this incompetent or do we want a permanently unstable and helpless Mexico?
posted by aydeejones at 5:34 PM on October 28, 2014 [5 favorites]
posted by aydeejones at 5:34 PM on October 28, 2014 [5 favorites]
It's the western hemisphere equivalent of what we do in the middle east. Prop up one bad guy instead of another because it benefits us, even if that benefit comes down to simply suppressing that country's totality of self sufficiency. Sometimes it helps just to cripple a country so your bros can keep things like oil production from being all excessive and price-elastic.
posted by aydeejones at 5:37 PM on October 28, 2014
posted by aydeejones at 5:37 PM on October 28, 2014
And to complete this trilogy, my phone is sucking at getting the link but just Google "Klein War Civilians Mexico" for some light PDF reading. No quotation marks. Of course it's disaster capitalism which often is emergent and not always an intentional conspiracy but it doesn't take long to find opportunity in every crisis when you buy politicians by the barrel
posted by aydeejones at 5:43 PM on October 28, 2014
posted by aydeejones at 5:43 PM on October 28, 2014
HuffPo: Enough! Mexico Is Ready to Explode -- good discussion of a lot of the peripheral violence that surrounds the main incidents
posted by Noisy Pink Bubbles at 5:47 PM on October 28, 2014 [3 favorites]
posted by Noisy Pink Bubbles at 5:47 PM on October 28, 2014 [3 favorites]
Thank you for that HuffPost link, NPB. It is written by Homero Aridjis a controversial but well known mexican poet and novelist.
posted by omegar at 6:03 PM on October 28, 2014
posted by omegar at 6:03 PM on October 28, 2014
Here's the article I was discussing:
A War on Civilians: Disaster Capitalism and the Drug War in Mexico
This is from 2012; pull quote:
President Calderón acknowledges that drug trafficking cannot be resolved solely be confronting the cartels. He has publicly recognized that the demand for drugs within the United States has made the industry into a profitable business, and that the flow of assault rifles from the United States into the hands of Mexico’s cartels has contributed to the cartels’ power. Yet, he asserts
that his government has “no alternative” but to meet the cartels with military force. He acknowledges that the rising death toll is “painful,” but dismisses the dead as criminals, repeatedly assuring his country that 90 percent of the dead are involved with the drug trade. However, 95 percent of the murders are never investigated, suggesting that Calderón has no factual basis for this assertion and revealing his administration’s bias against victims. Notably, many whose lives have been touched by the violence disagree that the casualties should be dismissed or disregarded in this way.
Reminds me of US "if male and killed by drone, then you are a terrorist" logic. Even worse here when the "military approach to solving the issue using the same brutality" is a thinly veiled choosing of sides in a rising narco-feudal system.
posted by aydeejones at 6:06 PM on October 28, 2014 [1 favorite]
A War on Civilians: Disaster Capitalism and the Drug War in Mexico
This is from 2012; pull quote:
President Calderón acknowledges that drug trafficking cannot be resolved solely be confronting the cartels. He has publicly recognized that the demand for drugs within the United States has made the industry into a profitable business, and that the flow of assault rifles from the United States into the hands of Mexico’s cartels has contributed to the cartels’ power. Yet, he asserts
that his government has “no alternative” but to meet the cartels with military force. He acknowledges that the rising death toll is “painful,” but dismisses the dead as criminals, repeatedly assuring his country that 90 percent of the dead are involved with the drug trade. However, 95 percent of the murders are never investigated, suggesting that Calderón has no factual basis for this assertion and revealing his administration’s bias against victims. Notably, many whose lives have been touched by the violence disagree that the casualties should be dismissed or disregarded in this way.
Reminds me of US "if male and killed by drone, then you are a terrorist" logic. Even worse here when the "military approach to solving the issue using the same brutality" is a thinly veiled choosing of sides in a rising narco-feudal system.
posted by aydeejones at 6:06 PM on October 28, 2014 [1 favorite]
I don't get why these students in particular are targeted - how do rural teaching students become a drug cartel risk?
posted by viggorlijah at 6:15 PM on October 28, 2014 [3 favorites]
posted by viggorlijah at 6:15 PM on October 28, 2014 [3 favorites]
Because the teacher's colleges are a hotbed of left radicalism in Mexico. They cultivate a force that is naturally antagonistic to the drug cartel / state status quo.
What the spark was for this particular massacre / kidnapping / etc. is unclear. From the New Yorker article:
What the spark was for this particular massacre / kidnapping / etc. is unclear. From the New Yorker article:
With Mayor Abarca and his wife on the run, we may never find out exactly why the Ayotzinapa Normal School students were so viciously targeted. Was it because they upset the mayor’s wife on the evening of her big speech? Was it an act of political repression against leftist student activists (who are overtly despised by the state’s political class and by the army), and thus also a threat directed against all leftists and activists? Those are among the possible motives mentioned in the media and by experts. But Mexicans know from experience that the motives behind acts of narco-state violence are often bewildering and senseless. What matters is that such acts happen because the groups responsible—both the narcos and the police and politicians who are allied with them and protect them—know that they can get away with almost anything.posted by Noisy Pink Bubbles at 6:22 PM on October 28, 2014 [4 favorites]
So we stop or draw down military/police aid to Mexico. Mexico either dies trying to fight itself or wises up and decriminalizes.
WHAT HAPPENS THEN? It's already become abundantly clear that the narcos would rather watch the world burn than be inconvenienced in even the slightest way. What do you think they'd do if the federales rolled up demanding taxes? So now you've got a bunch of very opportunistic and well-armed businessmen versus a federal government that just had its police force decimated by budget cuts. I'm genuinely, 100% stumped about what to do.
posted by The White Hat at 8:34 PM on October 28, 2014 [1 favorite]
WHAT HAPPENS THEN? It's already become abundantly clear that the narcos would rather watch the world burn than be inconvenienced in even the slightest way. What do you think they'd do if the federales rolled up demanding taxes? So now you've got a bunch of very opportunistic and well-armed businessmen versus a federal government that just had its police force decimated by budget cuts. I'm genuinely, 100% stumped about what to do.
posted by The White Hat at 8:34 PM on October 28, 2014 [1 favorite]
What's so fucking frustrating is that our government both overreacts hysterically to abused children and civilians from Mexico and points south immigrating here, and also refuses to do anything (like legalization, or clamping down on gun availability) that would actually help make us safer. Here in Texas we have a nice exposed front-row seat to all of this, and the prospect of Mexico collapsing on our doorstep is scary even if you don't give a damn about Mexico. That violence is not going to stay all on their side. In fact I am absolutely sure that lots of narco violence is already happening and unreported here (after all, if an undocumented immigrant is killed and disposed of in a remote grave, who would know?), and that we are not nearly as safe as we think we are.
posted by emjaybee at 9:10 PM on October 28, 2014 [7 favorites]
posted by emjaybee at 9:10 PM on October 28, 2014 [7 favorites]
Are we really this incompetent or do we want a permanently unstable and helpless Mexico?
Yes.
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 9:18 PM on October 28, 2014 [5 favorites]
Yes.
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 9:18 PM on October 28, 2014 [5 favorites]
That violence is not going to stay all on their side. In fact I am absolutely sure that lots of narco violence is already happening and unreported here (after all, if an undocumented immigrant is killed and disposed of in a remote grave, who would know?), and that we are not nearly as safe as we think we are.
Oh, certainly. That case was mostly narco-on-narco stuff as a form of revenge, not really against civilians outside of the drug trade.
posted by LionIndex at 9:26 PM on October 28, 2014 [1 favorite]
Oh, certainly. That case was mostly narco-on-narco stuff as a form of revenge, not really against civilians outside of the drug trade.
posted by LionIndex at 9:26 PM on October 28, 2014 [1 favorite]
Are we really this incompetent or do we want a permanently unstable and helpless Mexico?
Yes.
It's not incompetence. Incompetence would be if the safety and prosperity of the Mexican people was an American policy goal and the US, through its blundering, failed to achieve it.
What is happening, by contrast, is that various powerful American (and, to be sure, some Mexican) political interests are pursuing their respective agendas and Mexico's suffering is what they have deemed acceptable collateral damage. Arms manufacturers continue to sell their guns, security companies sling more surveillance equipment to beef up the border, big agribusiness price small-scale famers out of the market, thus creating a desperate and easily exploitable labor force, the US continues to talk about Latin America only in terms of turning away refugees and fails to consider mitigating solutions like regulating a legal drug trade... etc.
It's not that these people are happy when, to quote the New Yorker, another body shows up with "eyes [] torn out and [] facial skin [] ripped away from [the] skull" on Mexican streets. It's that they just don't care.
(See also the similarity with the crack explosion in the US. Parties within the US government didn't aim to terrorize black urban communities with crack, that just happened to be -- in their eyes -- an acceptable and unimportant outcome of financing the Contra effort.)
posted by Noisy Pink Bubbles at 9:55 PM on October 28, 2014 [6 favorites]
Yes.
It's not incompetence. Incompetence would be if the safety and prosperity of the Mexican people was an American policy goal and the US, through its blundering, failed to achieve it.
What is happening, by contrast, is that various powerful American (and, to be sure, some Mexican) political interests are pursuing their respective agendas and Mexico's suffering is what they have deemed acceptable collateral damage. Arms manufacturers continue to sell their guns, security companies sling more surveillance equipment to beef up the border, big agribusiness price small-scale famers out of the market, thus creating a desperate and easily exploitable labor force, the US continues to talk about Latin America only in terms of turning away refugees and fails to consider mitigating solutions like regulating a legal drug trade... etc.
It's not that these people are happy when, to quote the New Yorker, another body shows up with "eyes [] torn out and [] facial skin [] ripped away from [the] skull" on Mexican streets. It's that they just don't care.
(See also the similarity with the crack explosion in the US. Parties within the US government didn't aim to terrorize black urban communities with crack, that just happened to be -- in their eyes -- an acceptable and unimportant outcome of financing the Contra effort.)
posted by Noisy Pink Bubbles at 9:55 PM on October 28, 2014 [6 favorites]
Also - rich white people, mostly liberals like us, love weed (& to a lesser extent cocaine) and continue to buy it sourced directly from the cartels, providing a huge chunk of their financing. It's not just "big goverent and buisness" that is culpable - ordinary people are too.
posted by Another Fine Product From The Nonsense Factory at 2:31 AM on October 29, 2014 [6 favorites]
posted by Another Fine Product From The Nonsense Factory at 2:31 AM on October 29, 2014 [6 favorites]
Granted, if there were no demand there would not be an incentive to produce, but the policy implications flowing from that are less obvious. Imploring people to not use drugs tends to not be very effective.
(American drug use is also not the product of incompetence... not that I think you were claiming it was.)
posted by Noisy Pink Bubbles at 5:31 AM on October 29, 2014 [1 favorite]
(American drug use is also not the product of incompetence... not that I think you were claiming it was.)
posted by Noisy Pink Bubbles at 5:31 AM on October 29, 2014 [1 favorite]
It's a bit too late to make the cartels vanish by lowering the demand for drugs. They were financed by drugs and thats how they came to power. But once they gained their strength they started getting their hands into business (oil, timber and natural resources, etc) and politics and exortion and, you name it.
The monster has been created and like any lucrative and powerful organisation it is going to be hard to stamp out.
posted by vacapinta at 5:45 AM on October 29, 2014 [4 favorites]
The monster has been created and like any lucrative and powerful organisation it is going to be hard to stamp out.
posted by vacapinta at 5:45 AM on October 29, 2014 [4 favorites]
So we stop or draw down military/police aid to Mexico. Mexico either dies trying to fight itself or wises up and decriminalizes.
WHAT HAPPENS THEN? It's already become abundantly clear that the narcos would rather watch the world burn than be inconvenienced in even the slightest way. What do you think they'd do if the federales rolled up demanding taxes? So now you've got a bunch of very opportunistic and well-armed businessmen versus a federal government that just had its police force decimated by budget cuts. I'm genuinely, 100% stumped about what to do.
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It's a bit too late to make the cartels vanish by lowering the demand for drugs. They were financed by drugs and thats how they came to power. But once they gained their strength they started getting their hands into business (oil, timber and natural resources, etc) and politics and exortion and, you name it.
The monster has been created and like any lucrative and powerful organisation it is going to be hard to stamp out.
Yep. What we are seeing is the first baby steps of the new warlordism that will plague the declining American empire in the coming decades/centuries.
posted by Steely-eyed Missile Man at 6:14 AM on October 29, 2014 [1 favorite]
WHAT HAPPENS THEN? It's already become abundantly clear that the narcos would rather watch the world burn than be inconvenienced in even the slightest way. What do you think they'd do if the federales rolled up demanding taxes? So now you've got a bunch of very opportunistic and well-armed businessmen versus a federal government that just had its police force decimated by budget cuts. I'm genuinely, 100% stumped about what to do.
...
It's a bit too late to make the cartels vanish by lowering the demand for drugs. They were financed by drugs and thats how they came to power. But once they gained their strength they started getting their hands into business (oil, timber and natural resources, etc) and politics and exortion and, you name it.
The monster has been created and like any lucrative and powerful organisation it is going to be hard to stamp out.
Yep. What we are seeing is the first baby steps of the new warlordism that will plague the declining American empire in the coming decades/centuries.
posted by Steely-eyed Missile Man at 6:14 AM on October 29, 2014 [1 favorite]
A portrait of the presumptive villain, Maria de los Angeles Pineda Villa
posted by Noisy Pink Bubbles at 6:24 AM on October 29, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by Noisy Pink Bubbles at 6:24 AM on October 29, 2014 [2 favorites]
Thanks for this detailed post. My parents actually met on the night of the Tlatelolco massacre and fell in love in the dark, tense days afterwards, so the historical context of student massacres in Mexico is especially relevant to me. My mom used to tell me about how, while taking the bus in Mexico City, she would sometimes feel someone pressing a piece of paper in her hand. The paper would have the name of someone who died in the massacre as well as the address of their next of kin, with a request to contact them and notify the family of the person's death.
posted by LMGM at 8:37 AM on October 29, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by LMGM at 8:37 AM on October 29, 2014 [2 favorites]
> What's so fucking frustrating is that our government both overreacts hysterically to abused children and civilians from Mexico and points south immigrating here, and also refuses to do anything (like legalization, or clamping down on gun availability) that would actually help make us safer.
What's beyond frustrating is that the government actually engages in policies to actively make things worse, rather than just an apathy towards improving national security. I think the Fast and Furious operation was already alluded to, but [arms manufacturers continue to sell their guns, security companies sling more surveillance equipment to beef up the border, big agribusiness price small-scale famers out of the market]...and large banking companies launder their money.
posted by Johann Georg Faust at 9:36 AM on October 29, 2014 [3 favorites]
What's beyond frustrating is that the government actually engages in policies to actively make things worse, rather than just an apathy towards improving national security. I think the Fast and Furious operation was already alluded to, but [arms manufacturers continue to sell their guns, security companies sling more surveillance equipment to beef up the border, big agribusiness price small-scale famers out of the market]...and large banking companies launder their money.
posted by Johann Georg Faust at 9:36 AM on October 29, 2014 [3 favorites]
Reason #2309 for Oregonians to vote Yes on Measure 91, and all others to follow.
posted by gottabefunky at 10:55 AM on October 29, 2014
posted by gottabefunky at 10:55 AM on October 29, 2014
Also - rich white people, mostly liberals like us, love weed (& to a lesser extent cocaine) and continue to buy it sourced directly from the cartels, providing a huge chunk of their financing. It's not just "big goverent and buisness" that is culpable - ordinary people are too.
What? i don't know about midwest states or whatever, but at least on the west coast basically all the good weed is locally grown. This is true in california and washington, and oregon seems to get their weed from those two states.
I've had this argument with a bunch of people trying to make this point, and they basically refuse to accept that it's true. Why would it be worth it to transport shittier weed all the way up here from mexico when the good stuff is right here, grown maybe 30 minutes away?
Everything i heard made it seem like they were having trouble getting any sort of large scale successful grow op of the turbo-chronic shit going in mexico. I don't know if that's true, but at least around here mexico is only associated with shitty brick weed that only makes you cough.
Oh, and i used to work at a dispensary, i'm not spherical cows-ing this.
posted by emptythought at 3:46 PM on October 29, 2014 [1 favorite]
What? i don't know about midwest states or whatever, but at least on the west coast basically all the good weed is locally grown. This is true in california and washington, and oregon seems to get their weed from those two states.
I've had this argument with a bunch of people trying to make this point, and they basically refuse to accept that it's true. Why would it be worth it to transport shittier weed all the way up here from mexico when the good stuff is right here, grown maybe 30 minutes away?
Everything i heard made it seem like they were having trouble getting any sort of large scale successful grow op of the turbo-chronic shit going in mexico. I don't know if that's true, but at least around here mexico is only associated with shitty brick weed that only makes you cough.
Oh, and i used to work at a dispensary, i'm not spherical cows-ing this.
posted by emptythought at 3:46 PM on October 29, 2014 [1 favorite]
An update: José Luis Abarca, the former Mexican mayor of Iguala and his wife have been detained today in Mexico City, where they were hiding in a rented house, in the case of missing students.
Also: many and lots of thanks to everyone who favorited this post. It seems all a single person can do is shed more light into a horrible situation (as light is the best disinfectant) and you have helped many people just by sharing and favoriting.
posted by omegar at 6:52 AM on November 4, 2014
Also: many and lots of thanks to everyone who favorited this post. It seems all a single person can do is shed more light into a horrible situation (as light is the best disinfectant) and you have helped many people just by sharing and favoriting.
posted by omegar at 6:52 AM on November 4, 2014
Against the Grain had a segment on the Mexico developments today
posted by Noisy Pink Bubbles at 11:46 PM on November 5, 2014
posted by Noisy Pink Bubbles at 11:46 PM on November 5, 2014
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Forty-three missing college students are believed to have been murdered and burned near a municipal garbage dump in the southern state of Guerrero and their remains thrown into a river, Mexico's chief prosecutor said Friday.
posted by rtha at 2:56 PM on November 7, 2014
posted by rtha at 2:56 PM on November 7, 2014
‘We want justice!’ Protesters storm Mexico's presidential palace
posted by Noisy Pink Bubbles at 7:58 AM on November 9, 2014
posted by Noisy Pink Bubbles at 7:58 AM on November 9, 2014
'I've had enough', says Mexico Attorney General in massacre gaffe
Murillo's words have gone viral, with #YaMeCanse and #estoycansado (I'm tired) among the most trending hashtags on Twitter in Mexico.posted by Golden Eternity at 8:09 AM on November 9, 2014 [1 favorite]
[...]
Protesters who have railed against the government's handling of the case sprayed the phrase "I've had enough .. of fear" on the entrance of the Attorney General's office overnight.
Hazlitt piece on the teaching school and reforms the students were protesting.
posted by viggorlijah at 4:04 PM on November 10, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by viggorlijah at 4:04 PM on November 10, 2014 [1 favorite]
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