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Since the 43 Students Went Missing, 130 Bodies Have Been Found Outside Iguala, Mexico
The disappearances sparked protests across Mexico and made international headlines. State authorities soon declared that bodies that had been found in a mass grave in the hills above Iguala could be those of the missing students. But the 38 bodies were not the students’ and have yet to be identified. To date, only one bone fragment, which the government said had been found in a river, has been positively identified as belonging to a missing student: 19-year-old Alexander Mora.
Former Iguala Mayor José Luis Abarca and his wife, María de los Ángeles Pineda, are accused of masterminding the kidnapping. According to the government’s version, Abarca was concerned that they would disrupt an event in Iguala, and local police intercepted the students and handed them over to the drug gang Guerreros Unidos. A report by the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights questions this explanation, noting that military and federal police forces were monitoring the students’ movements at the time of their disappearance.
Iguala’s vendors resent the narrative that local corruption is solely to blame. “On the news you only see pure gossip, things that are good for them, for the government,” says Carmen, who requested a pseudonym out of fear of the narcos. “It screws the citizens.”
“My customers from outside who buy wholesale told me that they are afraid, that in here people steal and kill,” says Carmen. “Even my aunt who lives in Arizona calls me and asks if I’m okay, because she saw Iguala on the news. But here everything is really quiet: no tourists, no sales, no nothing.”
Former Iguala Mayor José Luis Abarca and his wife, María de los Ángeles Pineda, are accused of masterminding the kidnapping. According to the government’s version, Abarca was concerned that they would disrupt an event in Iguala, and local police intercepted the students and handed them over to the drug gang Guerreros Unidos. A report by the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights questions this explanation, noting that military and federal police forces were monitoring the students’ movements at the time of their disappearance.
Iguala’s vendors resent the narrative that local corruption is solely to blame. “On the news you only see pure gossip, things that are good for them, for the government,” says Carmen, who requested a pseudonym out of fear of the narcos. “It screws the citizens.”
“My customers from outside who buy wholesale told me that they are afraid, that in here people steal and kill,” says Carmen. “Even my aunt who lives in Arizona calls me and asks if I’m okay, because she saw Iguala on the news. But here everything is really quiet: no tourists, no sales, no nothing.”
Full article: http://inthesetimes.com/article/18864/digging-for-igualas-disappeared
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