Student Murders Throw Mexico's PRD Left-Wing Party Into a Tailspin
Carrie Kahn - NPR.org
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December 4, 2014
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Cuauhtemoc Cardenas (center) with other PRD leaders as they protest energy reforms (Reuters)

 

Mexico is facing one of its greatest political crises in recent years. The turmoil comes after the disappearance and presumed killing of 43 college students. Authorities say a local mayor had ordered an attack on those students. That mayor was backed by the country's premier left-wing party, the PRD. That scandal has thrown the historically progressive party into a tailspin and NPR's Carrie Kahn reports that things got worse when one of its most respected statesmen resigned.

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