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Mexican cartel figure arrested over missing students

Federal authorities in Mexico have captured a suspected high-ranking drug cartel member who they says is implicated in last year’s disappearance of 43 college students in the state of Guerrero. State prosecutor Miguel Angel Godinez Munoz announced the arrest of Gildardo Lopez Astudillo, whose nickname is ‘El Gil’, in a[…]

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Mexico leader plans to dissolve local police forces

Mexico’s president announced plans Thursday to dissolve the country’s corruption-plagued municipal police forces, in a sweeping security reform amid a crisis over the role of gang-linked police in the presumed massacre of 43 students. “Mexico must change,” President Enrique Pena Nieto said in a televised speech, following weeks of protests[…]

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Governor quits over missing Mexico students

The governor of Guerrero, the Mexican state where 43 students vanished last month in the city of Iguala, has said he is stepping aside from his position, in a move he hoped would help the investigation into the disappearances. “I have decided to take my leave from the state parliament,”[…]

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Mexico orders mayor’s arrest over students

Mexico has ordered the arrest of the mayor of the southern city of Iguala, along with his wife and an aide, charging they masterminded last month’s attack that left six students dead and 43 missing. Authorities have searched in vain for any trace of the teachers college students who disappeared[…]

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Thousands march for missing Mexico students

Tens of thousands of people held protests across Mexico, joining tearful families of 43 missing students demanding their return amid fears a police-backed gang executed them. Parents of the victims traveled from Guerrero, where the students disappeared, to head a march of thousands of people in Mexico City on Wednesday,[…]

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Bodies exhumed from mass grave in Mexico

At least 28 bodies have been pulled from a mass grave in southern Mexico as authorities check if they were among a group of 43 students missing since a police shooting last week. Inaky Blanco, chief prosecutor of Guerrero state, said on Sunday that 28 bodies were recovered but that[…]

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