[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] Mexican authorities have announced the capture of the gang leader believed to have colluded with corrupt coppers in the disappearance of 43 college students.Sidronio Casarrubias' arrest was announced just hours after thousands of protesters erupted into the streets of Acapulo to demand the safe return of the male students who vanished in the southern state of Guerrero three weeks ago.
Attorney general Jesus Murillo Karam said Casarrubias' arrest, along with one of his lieutenants, would open a "new line of investigation that can quick and more easily get us closer to the truth" in the case.
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Al Jazeera's Rachael Levin said from Mexico City although the arrest was significant, the government's effort to end drug-related violence in the Mexican state remained in doubt.
"They are trying to show that they are cracking down," she claimed. "But cleaning up the government and the system here ‐ that takes a lot longer."
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22 coppers, who are believed to have links to the Guerreros Unidos, or 'United Warriors', gang which Casarrubias is alleged to lead.