Mexican mayor arrested over students’ abduction

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Source: The Guardian UK

Police have detained the former mayor of the southern Mexican city of Iguala, who officials say ordered the attacks on students at a teachers’ college in September that left six dead and 43 missing.

José Luis Abarca and his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda, were arrested in Mexico City without resisting, according to two security officials. They provided no other details.

The couple was in the custody of the attorney general’s office, where they were giving statements. More than a month after the attacks, Mexican authorities still have not determined the whereabouts of the 43 students, undermining President Enrique Peña Nieto’s claims that Mexico has become safer under his watch.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/04/mexico-mayor-arrested-students-abduction

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Horrible.

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1. just saw this article yesterday

nasty people

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/29/mexico-s-first-lady-of-murder-is-on-the-lam.html

Mexico’s First Lady of Murder Is on the Lam

In a city where murderers tortured and killed with seeming impunity, Maria de los Angeles Pineda Villa was ‘the key operator’—and allegedly sealed the fate of 43 student teachers.

Tuesday saw Mexican security forces digging near a garbage dump, excavating yet another unmarked grave with the hope of finally finding 43 student teachers who went missing after a protest last month amid reports of a massacre carried out by the local police.

And the hunt was continuing for the most wanted woman in Mexico, the woman said to have given the Iguala police chief a fateful order when she mistakenly imagined the students might disrupt a party she was throwing in honor of herself.

“Teach them a lesson.” The order purportedly came from Maria de los Angeles Pineda Villa, wife of the mayor of Iguala and by numerous accounts the person really in charge.