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Mexico Missing Students Fury, Rocks President Pena Nieto

Based on what I’ve read from in this most disturbing article, it appears as though Mexico is not only dealing with the fact that there are 43 missing students unaccounted for, but also that their law enforcement and government is corrupt and only adding to the countries problems instead of being their to help. It all started on September 26th when a group of student teachers were protesting in the town of Iguala. Is it said that because the major’s wife was planning to hold a political rally in the same location the following day and that the protest was disrupting her plans, police came in and fired upon the unarmed students killing 6 of them. After which they abducted 43 additional students, handed them over to the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel and it is now said that they have been killed. It has been two months since the students came up missing and their parents are still refusing to accept the fact that they may no longer be alive. The attorney general states that the students have been murdered in the most brutal ways.
However, the parents and Iguala’s local community are searching the area for these students. The vegetation is thick and they have located many non-related gravesites from previous events. The mountains of Guerrero are covered with mass graves and may be the answer to the major missing people problem in Mexico. To date there have been roughly 26,000 people that have gone missing over the last 7 years. It is suspicioned that this is the work of the drug cartels and mimics the crimes committed during South American military dictatorships in the 1970s.
The president’s response is to re-work the police forces, but the drug cartels are much in