Mistrust and Confusion Surround the Disappearance of Mexican Students David Leveille - PRI's The World
go to original October 11, 2014

Relatives hold pictures of missing students during a demonstration demanding their safe return on the outskirts of Chilpancingo, Mexico, on October 7, 2014. (Jorge Dan Lopez/Reuters)

(This story is based on a radio interview. Listen to the full interview.)

Hasta Encontrarlos means “until they are found.” And in southern Mexico, you'll see this message scrawled on the sides of buildings and written across bumper stickers.

It refers to 43 student who went missing from the Ayotzinapa Teacher Training College in the city of Iguala. The students were allegedly kidnapped by local police, then turned over to a criminal gang. That's happened before, but the scope of this kidnapping goes beyond previous incidents.

"These were students from a rural Mexico teaching college ... they had come to Iguala to solicit public donations for an upcoming march they were planning," says Randal Archibold, who wrote about the missing students for the New York Times.

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