Teachers Burn Down State Capitol Building in Guerrero, Mexico to Protest Missing Students

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/26403-teachers-burn-down-state-capitol-building-in-guerrero-mexico-to-protest-missing-students

Hundreds of students and teachers smashed windows and set fires inside a state capital building in southern Mexico on Monday, as fury erupted over the disappearance of 43 young people believed abducted by local police linked to a drug cartel.

The protesters called for the 43 students from a rural teachers' college in Guerrero state, missing since Sept. 26, to be returned alive, even though fears have grown that 10 newly discovered mass graves could contain their bodies.

AP photographs showed smoke billowing from the government building in Chilpancingo, the capital of Guerrero, and flames licking from office windows. Firefighters battled the blaze.

Jose Villanueva Manzanarez, spokesman for Guerrero's government, said the protesting members of a teachers' union initially tried to get into the state congress in Chilpancingo but were repelled by anti-riot police. They then headed to the state government palace.

With the support of hundreds of students from the Ayotzinapa teachers' college, the teachers blockaded the capital building, attacking it with battle bars, rocks and Molotov cocktails, he said.

The violence came more than two weeks after police in Iguala, also in Guerrero state, opened fire on the teacher's college students, killing at least six. Witnesses have said that dozens of students were taken away by police and have not been seen since. Twenty-six local police officers have been detained, and officials are attempting to determine if any of the students are in the mass graves nearby.

The confrontation in Iguala shed light on a widespread problem with local police in Mexico: They are often linked to organized crime. In the case of Iguala, the police who attacked the students were working with the local cartel, Guerreros Unidos, according to testimony of those arrested.

[scarystuffyo]

1. Most Americans never see or experience the real Mexico

They stay at vacation villas on the beach .

It is one of the most corrupt and dangerous governments on the planet.
You do not want to make enemies with the Federal Government the Federales , the local police or the cartels

They are all equally as dangerous

[a la izquierda]

7. So where have you been in Mexico?

I've traveled extensively. The worst I experienced was a little teasing from an army officer at a checkpoint this summer.

[merrily]

2. Poverty of the population and evil in the PTB is an incendiary mix.

[Cha]

3. I can imagine how furious they would be.. hope the Protestors are SAFE!

[cali]

4. they're not missing. they were found in mass graves

[Recursion]

5. I thought that wasn't confirmed yet? (nt)

[a la izquierda]

6. Apparently, the grave does not contain the students.

http://news.yahoo.com/no-match-missing-mexico-students-not-among-28-231154963.html

Not sure if I believe this yet, but we'll see.