Mexico's 43 missing students and the Gurreros Unidos gang

In September 2014, 43 students in Iguala, Mexico were detained by police after a protest and turned over to the Guerreros Unidos gang. The disappearance of the students created weeks of protests around Mexico due to the anger toward the corruption and violence in the country. The police were obviously corrupt by turning the students over to the gang., but why did they do so? Federal investigators have come to believe that Iguala Mayor Jose Luis Abarca and his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda, told the police to give the students over to the gang. This is because they were upset over a protest by the students that took place on September 26, 2014. The mayor and his wife told the police to stop the students who were coming back to the college because they would, "disrupt a speech his wife was giving at a public event that evening." Today, of the 43 students missing, just one of them has been identified. Alexander Mora was identified after being taken for DNA tests at a forensic center. The rest of the 42 have been said to be killed and burned by the Guerreros Unidos gang after being told that the students belong to a rival gang. Relatives of the students say they will keep protesting until the students are found alive or the forensic evidence proves they died. Now they also want authorities to look into the role of the Mexican army in the disappearance. 

Carlitos Rangel

Article: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-30859925