Damning Report on Missing Ayotzinapa Students Says 'Justice Neglected' Reuters
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Mexico: Report Finds Flaws in Investigation of Missing 43 Students (Democracy Now!)

An independent Mexican commission said on Thursday it found serious flaws in an investigation into the apparent massacre of 43 students last year, dealing a fresh blow to President Enrique Pena Nieto over a scandal that has battered his administration.

The case became a symbol of impunity over disappearances and plunged Pena Nieto into his deepest crisis after the 43 trainee teachers were abducted and very likely murdered by a drug gang working with corrupt police in southwest Mexico last September.

A report by the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) said the attorney general's office, which has only identified the remains of one of the 43, still had not compiled basic information about the victims, who came from poor backgrounds. Nor had it properly investigated 11 suspects in the case, the CNDH found.

...The mass disappearance in the city of Iguala "has proven the depth of barbarity ... the abandonment of the law and the neglect of justice" in Mexico, CNDH president Luis Raul Gonzalez said in a statement.

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