Mexico has faced a trying fall since 43 student protestors disappeared.
A mass grave found in the country earlier this month was initially
thought to contain the students' remains, but genetic testing proved otherwise. Soon after, more bodies were unearthed in a canal outside of Mexico City. Now, another mass grave has been found
in Mexico, and this time, authorities believe they may have found the
missing students' remains, though the bodies are still being tested.
When
the first mass grave was found, a number of authority figures in
Iguala, the town in southern Mexico near where the students disappeared,
were linked to Guerreros Unidos, a local cartel, including the security
chief, mayor, and his wife. One gang member who has been arrested has
accused the mayor's wife, María de los Angeles Piñeda, of being "the main operator of criminal activities" in the area.
The newly found grave is in Cocula, Mexico,
within 10 miles of where the students were last seen alive. A group of
police officers has confessed to leaving the students with the cartel,
and two of the gang members eventually led authorities to the grave
site. Fifty-six people have been arrested thus far in connection to the case.
Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam may have put some minds at ease when he announced
to reporters: "We have the people who carried out the abduction of
these individuals." Mexican citizens have been protesting government
corruption as authorities continue to work on the case: Demonstrators
burned down Iguala's City Hall, marched through Mexico City, and pushed
Angel Aguirre, governor of Guerrero, to resign.
This
is the 12th mass grave found in the Pueblo Viejo area of Iguala, known
for its particularly high murder rate and connection to drug
trafficking, according to Adam Isacson, a security policy expert at the
Washington Office on Latin America, a nongovernmental organization. He told Fox News Latino, "It’s been one of those places where horrible things are going on, but you never know what it is."
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