Mexico Police Catch Fugitive Mayor Accused of Ordering Disappearance of Students

43 of them

Mexican police have captured a fugitive former mayor and his wife who the government has blamed for ordering the disappearance of 43 student teachers feared massacred in September, officials said on Tuesday. The students were abducted by police allied with a local drug gang in the southwestern city of Iguala after clashes there on the night of Sept. 26, sparking a huge manhunt and embarrassing President Enrique Pena Nieto.

Jose Ramon Salinas, spokesman for federal police, said on his Twitter account that Jose Luis Abarca, who was at the time mayor of Iguala, and his wife Maria de los Angeles Pineda were captured in Mexico City. The government is still searching for the students, whose disappearance has shocked the country and undermined Pena Nieto's claims that Mexico has become safer under his watch.

Comments

[bassjoe]

It’s shocking to me this is barely getting any attention in American media. Mexico, one of our largest trading partners, is on the brink of utter chaos resulting from destructive drug war policies pursued over the past decade that have killed tens of thousands and only made the drug cartels stronger (needless to say, these policies were encouraged by the USA).

[XM]

Drugs from Mexico aren’t selling like hot cakes here. And the cartel has other profitable projects (human trafficking).

You can’t take down the cartel without taking them head on. Just like ISIS. And black markets will exist after legalization. Unless big companies start taking over markets and offer cheap products to consumers, just like alcohol.

[Eric Bana]

What’s really defeating is that cocaine is the big driver of the cartels, and I don’t think cocaine has much chance of being decriminalized in the near future.

[alfachemistry22]

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