Guerrero State Mayor Sacked in Connection to Disappearance of 43 Students Renee Lewis - Al Jazeera
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Protesters in Guerrero state occupied five town halls, vowed more actions calling for students' safe return. (Jorge Dan Lopez/Reuters)

Mexico’s Guerrero state Congress on Friday approved the impeachment of the mayor of Iguala, José Luis Abarca — accused of ties to organized crime and involvement in last month’s disappearance of 43 students — as protesters occupied five of the state’s town halls calling for justice.

“The evidence provided shows that the mayor, Jose Luis Abarca Velezquez … in charge of public safety and maintaining peace and order did not do so on Sept. 26 and 27 in Iguala,” Omar Jalil Flores, Guerrero’s ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) deputy told Mexican news website El Universal.

On Thursday, protesters in Guerrero state occupied five town halls and demanded the resignation of state governor Ángel Aguirre Rivero and the safe return of the missing students. The activists vowed to take all 81 municipal buildings unless the students were returned. Thousands have marched in mass protests in Mexico City in the weeks following their disappearance, calling for their safe homecoming.

Protesters — who have held the municipal headquarters of Chilpancingo, Guerrero’s capital since Wednesday — also took control of several toll booths in Guerrero for hours on Thursday, asking for donations for their movement and informing the public of their aims.

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