Ayotzinapa Essay
Ayotzinapa: In the Name of Massacre
By: Luis Espindola
Mexico faces its worst political crisis of Enrique Peña Nieto government; the issue of missing and presumed executed students has unleashed a tsunami of emotion that has reached around the world, who has his eyes on a country plunged into chaos and uncertainty. On Friday, September 26th, 2014, at least four violent events related to each other, in the city of Iguala, state of Guerrero were killed 6 students of the Rural School Raúl Isidro Burgos of Ayotzinapa, 16 others were injured, and 43 students remains unknown whereabouts. In such acts, municipal police of Iguala participated in coordination with people dressed as civilians, in the total “absence, passivity and tolerance" of the armed forces, whose presence is evident in the state of Guerrero to the effect of the “Operation Safe Guerrero". According to the version of the students, when they retired from the place, the local police shot at the vehicles they were traveling. Hours later, after giving a press conference, they were attacked in new account. There, the police arrest 43 students, whom transferred in vans and patrols. The Mayor of Igua, Jose Luis Abarca, was at a party during the attack on the school, hence he said he never heard any shots. Under pressure and criticism, the Governor Angel Aguirre said he would leave his charge only if the citizens of Guerrero choose it, through a referendum. During the events, they were arrested 22 municipal elements, and based on the statements of some police involved, operating around noon on October 4th, was founded five clandestine graves near a hill of Pueblo Viejo, near the point where community were attacked. There is a great responsibility that the bodies found there correspond to the missing ones. However, the 28 bodies found did not correspond to any of the 43 missing students, reported the Attorney General of Justice. The incident occurred almost one month and a half ago, rocked an anesthetized by
By: Luis Espindola
Mexico faces its worst political crisis of Enrique Peña Nieto government; the issue of missing and presumed executed students has unleashed a tsunami of emotion that has reached around the world, who has his eyes on a country plunged into chaos and uncertainty. On Friday, September 26th, 2014, at least four violent events related to each other, in the city of Iguala, state of Guerrero were killed 6 students of the Rural School Raúl Isidro Burgos of Ayotzinapa, 16 others were injured, and 43 students remains unknown whereabouts. In such acts, municipal police of Iguala participated in coordination with people dressed as civilians, in the total “absence, passivity and tolerance" of the armed forces, whose presence is evident in the state of Guerrero to the effect of the “Operation Safe Guerrero". According to the version of the students, when they retired from the place, the local police shot at the vehicles they were traveling. Hours later, after giving a press conference, they were attacked in new account. There, the police arrest 43 students, whom transferred in vans and patrols. The Mayor of Igua, Jose Luis Abarca, was at a party during the attack on the school, hence he said he never heard any shots. Under pressure and criticism, the Governor Angel Aguirre said he would leave his charge only if the citizens of Guerrero choose it, through a referendum. During the events, they were arrested 22 municipal elements, and based on the statements of some police involved, operating around noon on October 4th, was founded five clandestine graves near a hill of Pueblo Viejo, near the point where community were attacked. There is a great responsibility that the bodies found there correspond to the missing ones. However, the 28 bodies found did not correspond to any of the 43 missing students, reported the Attorney General of Justice. The incident occurred almost one month and a half ago, rocked an anesthetized by