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| As Mexico searches for 43 missing students, dozens of bodies turn up in mass graves |
| 2014-10-29 |
| Mexican authorities in the troubled southern state of Guerrero are searching yet another mass grave in the hope of finding out what happened to the 43 college students who have been missing since late September. Based on statements from four people arrested Monday, authorities came upon the new location in Cocula, a town about 10 miles from where the students last were seen. Testing still needs to be done to determine if the new site has the missing students' remains. The discovery of the latest mass grave brings the total number of clandestine burial sites up to 12 around the hills of Pueblo Viejo in the municipality of Iguala, leading many observers to reflect on the long history of institutional violence and corruption that has plagued Guerrero. For decades, Guerrero has served as a main conduit for drugs moving north into the United States – thanks in part to its access to the Pacific Coast and its overall sparse population – and with it a deep-seated culture of corruption has emerged in the state’s local political offices and police forces. Arrest warrants have been issued for the missing Iguala Mayor José Luís Abarca and his wife, María de los Angeles Piñeda. Protesters last week burned down Iguala’s city hall and Guerrero Gov. Angel Aguirre stepped down under heavy criticism of the state's handling of the case and its political support of Abarca. “These people were middle class, they were educated kids and people in Mexico City can relate to them,” said Adam Isacson, a senior associate for Regional Security Policy at the Washington Office on Latin America. “When two drug gangs kill each other, sometimes with dozens of people dead, nobody, not even government officials, care because they say they’re criminals.” “Here this is not the case.” |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #5 What is needed is for the Occupy Wallstreeters to go to state of Gurrero, Mexico and protest. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-10-29 15:59 |
| #4 Lol, that's not funny, that's sick. Upon further review and in light of new evidence we find it funny, however sick. An obscure law on migratory duck hunting with nerf guns applies: no blood, no fowl. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-10-29 15:50 |
| #3 I surmise you've never been a teacher, Darth. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-10-29 15:27 |
| #2 Why massacre students? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2014-10-29 15:17 |
| #1 Middle class really? |
| Posted by: Herb Whomonter4543 2014-10-29 10:50 |