Mexican armed forces were complicit in students’ disappearance, new report finds
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Mexican security forces were complicit in the 2014 abduction of 43 student teachers and concealed documents which showed where some of them were taken, according to a new report by an independent panel of international experts presented on Tuesday. Carlos Martin Beristain and Angela Buitrago, members of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent […]
Americas rights body turns up heat on Mexico over missing students
Mexico City, Mexico Reuters Mexico’s government still owes an explanation to the families of 43 student teachers who disappeared eight years ago, and must clear up what role the armed forces played in the crime, a top international human rights body said on Tuesday. Commissioner Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitino of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission […]
Mexico arrests general over 2014 disappearances of 43 students
Mexico City Reuters Mexican authorities have arrested retired general Jose Rodriguez for his suspected involvement in the 2014 disappearance of 43 student teachers, a senior official said Thursday, making him the highest-ranking military officer so far held over the case. Deputy Security Minister Ricardo Mejia said four arrest warrants had recently been issued against military […]
Mexico calls disappearance of 43 students a ‘state crime’
Mexico CityReuters Mexican officials on Thursday called the 2014 disappearance of 43 students a state crime that was covered up by the government, in another damning assessment of the previous administration’s actions regarding one of Mexico’s worst human rights atrocities. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has pledged to reveal what happened to the students, who […]