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Judi Lynn

(160,644 posts)
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 11:55 PM Oct 2014

Demonstrations over missing Mexico students turn violent

Source: Associated Press

AP/October 13, 2014, 11:13 PM

Demonstrations over missing Mexico students turn violent

ACAPULCO, Mexico - Hundreds of students and teachers smashed windows and set fires inside a state capital building in southern Mexico on Monday, as fury erupted over the disappearance of 43 young people believed abducted by local police linked to a drug cartel.

The protesters called for the 43 students from a rural teachers' college in Guerrero state, missing since Sept. 26, to be returned alive, even though fears have grown that 10 newly discovered mass graves could contain their bodies.

AP photographs showed smoke billowing from the government building in Chilpancingo, the capital of Guerrero, and flames licking from office windows. Firefighters battled the blaze.

Jose Villanueva Manzanarez, spokesman for Guerrero's government, said the protesting members of a teachers' union initially tried to get into the state congress in Chilpancingo but were repelled by anti-riot police. They then headed to the state government palace.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/demonstrations-over-missing-mexico-students-turn-violent/

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Demonstrations over missing Mexico students turn violent (Original Post) Judi Lynn Oct 2014 OP
This incident looks like it could be the straw that broke the camel's back. Comrade Grumpy Oct 2014 #1
When your own government is not only not doing anything about violent crime but is itself complicit drm604 Oct 2014 #2
 

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)
1. This incident looks like it could be the straw that broke the camel's back.
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 01:21 AM
Oct 2014

There have been huge mobilizations in Mexico in recent years over crime, the narcos, corruption, and impunity. It's been a little quieter under Pena Nieto, but the same old shit keeps happening, and this apparent mass murder of leftist student teachers seems to be really lighting fires. So to speak.

drm604

(16,230 posts)
2. When your own government is not only not doing anything about violent crime but is itself complicit
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 07:53 AM
Oct 2014

what else can you do?

Unfortunately I have difficulty seeing any light at the end of this tunnel. How does this all end? Does it end?

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