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 […]
Mexican probe into missing students beset by delays and failure, watchdog says
Mexico City Reuters Mexican authorities have failed to carry out all arrests ordered by prosecutors over the 2014 disappearance of 43 students and the military has denied access to important information, a rights group said on Friday, expressing concern over continued delays in the investigation. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office in 2018 vowing […]
Experts accuse Mexico of hampering new probe into 2014 student disappearances
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Apanel of experts on Thursday accused Mexico’s government of blocking prosecutions in the 2014 disappearances of 43 student teachers, dealing a blow to President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador who vowed to clear up the case. The Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) said elements of the government had interfered with the troubled […]
Mexican armed forces knew about attack on 43 students, report says
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Mexico’s armed forces knew that 43 student teachers who disappeared in 2014 were being kidnapped by criminals, then hid evidence that could have helped locate them, according to a report released Monday by special investigation. Evidence obtained by the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI), an independent panel tasked with investigating the […]