Daniel Hernandez: In Today's Mexico, 'Anyone Can Get Away with Murder' David Leveille - PRI's The World
go to original April 2, 2015

A woman holds a sign that reads in Spanish, "The heart of a mother doesn't erase … doesn't forget. Out with so-called Peña," referring to Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto. (Rebecca Blackwell/STF)

Despite months of investigations, protests and anger, the case of 43 missing students in Ayotzinapa, Mexico, simply will not go away.

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"It gets to the lack of justice, the lack of transparency, the really decadent levels of impunity — all of these factors seem to come together in one case where these 43 unarmed young men ... [are] completely undeserving of this kind of a malicious end to their lives," says Daniel Hernandez, the Mexico bureau chief for Vice News. "I think this case gets to all of the nightmares that are lived in Mexico, this beautiful country that is living this collective trauma.”

According to Mexican government investigators, 43 students from Ayotzinapa were kidnapped on September 26, 2014, on the orders of the local mayor, who feared the students would disrupt an event in his town. The students were then allegedly handed over by corrupt police officers to members of Guerreros Unidos, a drug gang, who murdered the students in a garbage dump and piled their bodies on bonfires.

Yet after months of searching, only one victim's remains have been found.

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