Iguala Mayor Charged in Disappearance of 43 Missing Mexican Students Jared Keller - World.Mic
go to original January 14, 2015

Former Iguala mayor Jose Luis Abarca and wife Maria de los Angeles Pineda. (AP)

The former mayor of the Mexican city of Iguala has been charged with the kidnapping of 43 students feared to have been murdered last year, a step toward justice in the highly publicized case that sparked violent demonstrations across the country last year.

Tomas Zeron, director of criminal investigations at the federal Attorney General's office, told Reuters that prosecutors had obtained an arrest warrant for former Mayor José Luis Abarca and 44 others on charges of kidnapping the students.

The arrest warrant appears to be "the first charges filed against Abarca that are directly related to the students' disappearance," Reuters notes, even though authorities have suspected since October 2014 that the mayor and his wife were the masterminds of the kidnappings. Abarca's wife, María de los Angeles Pineda, was "jailed indefinitely" last week on charges that she and Abarca masterminded the abductions, Al-Jazeera reported last week.

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