A Massacre in Mexico: The True Story Behind the Missing Forty-Three Students
by Anabel Hernández
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On September 26, 2014, 43 male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College went missing in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. According to official reports, the students commandeered several buses to travel to Mexico City to commemorate the anniversary of the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre. During the journey, local police intercepted the students and a confrontation ensued. By the morning, they had disappeared without a trace. Hern indez reconstructs almost minute-by-minute the events of those show more nights in late September 2014, giving us what is surely the most complete picture available- her sources are unparalleled, since she has secured access to internal government documents that have not been made public, and to video surveillance footage the government has tried to hide and destroy. Hern indez demolishes the Mexican state 's official version, which the Pena Nieto government cynically dubbed the historic truth . State officials at all levels, from police and prosecutors to the upper echelons of the PRI administration, conspired to put together a fake case, concealing or manipulating evidence, and arresting and torturing dozens of suspects who then obliged with full confessions that matched the official lie. In the wake of the students ' disappearances, protestors in Mexico took up the slogan Fue el estado It was the state . Hern indez 's book is the one that gives most precision and credibility to the claim- by following the role of the various Mexican state agencies through the events in such remarkable detail, she allows to see exactly which parts of the state are responsible for which component of this monumental crime. show lessTags
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The Guardian Book of the Day (2018-10-07)
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- 364.13230972 — Social sciences Social problems and social services Criminology Criminal offenses Political and related offenses Offenses against proper government Corruption History, geographic treatment, biography
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