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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOutrage in Mexico over missing students broadens into fury at corruption, inequality
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/protests-over-missing-students-planted-in-guerrero-spread-across-mexico/2014/11/17/0ab932b8-69fc-11e4-bafd-6598192a448d_story.htmlProtesters take to the streets blocking highways, seizing town squares and vandalizing property to demand accountability.
Nov. 14, 2014 Family members of the 43 kidnapped students from the Ayotzinapa Normal School line up for a march through Chilpancingo, capital of Guerrero state. Jonathan Levinson/For the Washington Post
By Joshua Partlow November 17
AYOTZINAPA, Mexico On the day that pipe-wielding rioters set fire to a government accounting office and ransacked the state congress building, Felipe de la Cruz stepped to the microphone in the floodlit plaza of his missing sons school.
The protests about his son and dozens of others abducted by police had been building for weeks. The next morning, caravans of buses would drive out of these wooded hills to spread their defiant message to far corners of Mexico, as protesters in various states blocked highways, seized town squares, closed airports, and burned cars and buildings.
The parents are enraged by so much waiting and so few results, de la Cruz, who has emerged as a spokesman for the victims families, told the crowd on Wednesday. As of Monday, he said, the flame of insurgency has been lit.
In the more than seven weeks since police drove away with Cruzs 19-year-old son, Angel, and 42 of his classmates at a teachers college in the rural state of Guerrero, the localized rage of their relatives at the forced disappearances has flashed across the country and the world, drawing condemnations from such world leaders as President Obama and Pope Francis. The crime has captured Mexicos attention unlike nearly any other atrocity in the recent years of brutal drug-war violence and spawned a protest movement that has shown no signs of abating. President Enrique Peña Nieto, who returned this past weekend from an extended trip abroad, is facing the most acute crisis of his two years in office.
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Outrage in Mexico over missing students broadens into fury at corruption, inequality (Original Post)
cbayer
Nov 2014
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They are dead. They were murdered on local govt orders. To believe otherwise is folly.
WinkyDink
Nov 2014
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JEB
(4,748 posts)1. More info at the link below.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)4. Thanks for that. I am not sure that this story was posted previously.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)2. They are dead. They were murdered on local govt orders. To believe otherwise is folly.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)3. Everyone pretty much agrees that that is true, but the families are
enraged at the lack of government action and response.