Nick Miroff: In Mexico's Guerrero State, a Grim Truth Just Below the Surface Nick Miroff - The Washington Post
go to original October 17, 2014

Mexico's Missing Students: Were 43 Attacked by Cartel-Linked Police Targeted for Their Activism? (DemocracyNow!)

MEXICO CITY - Really, it should not have come as a surprise that the 28 bodies found in mass graves outside the town of Iguala do not correspond to those of any of the 43 student protesters who went missing there three weeks ago.

The forested hills above Iguala were a well-known human dumping ground, according to the families who live nearby. They often saw pickup trucks with tinted windows driving late at night up through the cornfields into the brush, followed by snaps of gunfire.

But they didn’t dare say anything.

This week’s announcement by Mexican prosecutors that the 28 corpses appear to belong to a different set of victims was heartening perhaps only to the families and classmates of the missing students, who attend a nearby teachers college. For them, it was a new strand of hope that the 43 may still be alive.

But for the rest of Mexico, it was yet another stop on a carousel of horrors, deepening the sense that there are clandestine graves all over the country, into which an untold number of Mexicans have vanished.

Scratch the surface a bit and the ghastly secrets emerge.

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Photo: Jorge Dan Lopez/Reuters

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