Terror in Coahuila: Up to 300 Disappeared in Mexico's Forgotten Massacre Ignacio Alvarado Alvarez - Al Jazeera
go to original March 18, 2015

Women hold posters of their missing relatives in Saltillo. (Reuters)

After 43 poor students from Ayotzinapa Normal School, a teachers’ training college in Mexico’s southern state of Guerrero, went missing in September, mass demonstrations across the country called for their return. Police abducted the 43 students and handed them over to a drug cartel to be executed. The killings were allegedly ordered by Iguala Mayor José Luis Abarca, according to a series of confessions.

Besides unleashing a scandal of immense proportions, the case of the 43 missing students highlights the need to review the long list of victims of the supposed war between drug cartels, which has its most significant share in northern states like Coahuila.

While the 43 Ayotzinapa students captured headlines around the world, the atrocities in Coahuila two years earlier went virtually ignored — confined to oblivion by an information vacuum powered by fear, impunity and government intimidation. Like Iguala, the violence in Coahuila is marked by collusion between authorities and criminal groups such that victims and residents are never quite clear who the perpetrators are. They are left with a sense of enormous complicity.

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