Thousands rally against drug cartel violence in Mexico following film students' deaths
By MEGAN CERULLO
| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
APR 27, 2018 | 3:45 PM
Demonstrators poured onto the streets of Mexico Friday to protest the brutal slaying of three film students by gang members who mistook them for rivals.
Nearly 12,000 people, including university students and teachers from five universities, flooded Guadalajara Thursday, calling for peace and justice in the crime-ridden region.
Authorities confirmed Monday that Salomon Aceves Gastelum, 25, Daniel Diaz, 20, and Marco Avalos, 20, were kidnapped, tortured, and killed by members of a drug cartel last month, CBS News reported. Their bodies were later dissolved in acid.
"The absurd war on drugs is taking our classmates and we will not allow it anymore," Jesus Medina, a student at the University of Guadalajara, told CBS News.
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Demonstrators across the country call on authorities to bring justice for the 15,000 missing young people in Mexico.
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Demonstrators called on Mexican authorities to hold those responsible for the disappearances to account
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Demonstrators in Mexico City and Guadalajara took to the streets in a march against widespread disappearances in Mexico, which groups say have reached epidemic proportions.
Carrying signs with slogans like "Where is the justice?", thousands marched in Guadalajara in Mexico's Jalisco state on Thursday, calling attention to the murder of three university students, who has been missing since March 19, by a cartel named the "Jalisco New Generation" (CJNG).
The Mexican attorney general's office announced on Monday that the three students, identified as Jesus Daniel Diaz, Javier Salomon Aceves and Marco Francisco Avalos, were killed by the cartel, which then dissolved their remains in acid.
Mexican Attorney General Raul Sanchez Jimenez said the three students were killed for filming at a house tied to one of the leaders of the CJNG. But Salomon's aunt said it was her home and she had given the students permission to film.
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