Is a Mexican Mayor's Bling-Loving Wife Behind the Massacre of 43 Students? Oakland Ross - Hamilton Spectator | |
go to original October 31, 2014 |
Mexico: Mayor's arrest is ordered as anger grows over missing students (euronews)
She prefers sleeveless dresses, adorns her glamorous frame with plenty of bejeweled accessories, and is not oblivious to the benefits of Botox.
In Mexico, they know her as the Queen of Iguala — after the town where she used to live — but she would much rather be celebrated as a doer of good.
Now, it turns out, she might better be described as a mass murderer, implicated in narcotics, extortion and corruption, as well as being a fugitive from Mexican justice.
Meet Maria de los Angeles Pineda Villa, first lady of the southern Mexican town of Iguala and the reputed mastermind of a searing atrocity that resulted in the disappearance last month of 43 young men, all now presumed dead.
Involving a shocking degree of collusion among politicians, police and drug traders, the mass abduction that unfolded on the night of Sept. 26 in the southern Mexican town of Iguala has triggered national outrage and international consternation, reactions that have only intensified against the backdrop of a so-far-inconclusive criminal investigation.
The whereabouts of the 43 student teachers remain a mystery, as well as a source of ever-mounting horror.
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