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Mexico Prepares to Make Arrests Over 43 Missing Teachers

Mexican authorities prepare to arrest dozens for kidnapping and murder

 on 3rd March 2018 @ 10.55am
43 student teachers were kidnapped and allegedly murdered three years ago © press
43 student teachers were kidnapped and allegedly murdered three years ago

Authorities in Mexico are preparing to make dozens of arrests in connection with the kidnapping and alleged murder of 43 student teachers three years ago.

The teachers went missing in southern Mexico more than three years ago, but charges will now be brought against 30 people in relation to the crime, the prosecutor in charge of the case announced on Friday.

Lead Prosecutor Alfredo Higuera told a hearing of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in Bogota that he has received new information to file charges against 30 people.

Among those to be arrested are local police officers.

The 43 student teachers disappeared on Sept. 26, 2014, in the city of Iguala in Guerrero state.

The tragic crime sparked international outcry, undermining the popularity of President Enrique Pena Nieto and battering Mexico’s reputation.

citizens demand answers for the 43 missing teachers © press
Citizens demand answers for the 43 missing teachers

Reuters reports: Guerrero has become Mexico’s deadliest state as a growing number of gangs battle over the control of poppy fields used to produce opium, the main ingredient in heroin.

An initial investigation by the government stated that the 43 were abducted by corrupt police who handed them over to members of a local drug cartel, who then killed them, incinerated their bodies at a trash dump and threw the ashes into a river.

However, an international team backed by the IACHR uncovered irregularities in the case that undermined the conclusions of the official investigation.

Higuera launched a new probe in 2016, and he said Friday that he had developed new lines of investigation.

the case of the 43 missing teachers caused international outcry © press
The case of the 43 missing teachers caused international outcry

Later on Friday in a radio interview, Higuera said he had ruled out a theory that the students, who had commandeered buses to drive into the Mexican capital for a protest, had unknowingly taken a bus with a hidden heroin shipment.

Mario Patron, director of the Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez Human Rights Center (Centro Pro) that represents family members of the missing youths, told the IACHR that there are doubts about the progress of the new probe.

He said that no new charges had been filed since December 2014.

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