Demonstrators Set Fire to Main Entrance of Mexican National Palace Thomson Reuters
go to original November 9, 2014

Raw: Mexicans Protest Over Missing Students (Associated Press)

MEXICO CITY - Thousands of people marched in the capital in the latest demonstration over a case that has repulsed the nation and triggered the biggest crisis of President Enrique Pena Nieto's administration.

The violent protests came a day after authorities said suspected gang hitmen confessed to killing the 43 students and incinerating their bodies in the southern state of Guerrero.

A small group of protesters used metal barricades as battering rams in an attempt to break open the National Palace door.

They briefly set the door on fire and spray-painted the words "we want them back alive" on the 16th-century building.

Pena Nieto uses the palace for ceremonies but he lives in the Los Pinos residence in another part of the capital.

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Related: Government Building in Guerrero State, Mexico, Attacked in Protests Over Students’ Murder (see video below)

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