Security Forces Caught El Chapo but Not Ayotzinapa Linchpin El Caminante teleSUR
go to original September 26, 2016

Two years after they went missing, the fate of 43 Mexican students who disappeared on their way to a protest remains unclear. (Al Jazeera English)

Mexican security forces managed to capture the world’s most wanted drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman months after he escaped from high security prison for the second time, but two years after 43 students from the Ayotzinapa teacher’s college went missing, authorities have failed to corner the cartel boss known as “El Caminante,” who played a leading role in kidnapping and forced disappearance of the students.

According to an independent group of experts from the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights, local police in the town of Iguala, where the students studied, talked on the phone with El Caminante at “critical times” throughout the night that the 43 youths disappeared from buses they had commandeered to attend a protest in Mexico City.

The expert group, known by its Spanish acronym, GIEI, revealed in its final report in April — before being forced off the case — troubling problems with the official state-led investigation. Experts say the two-year probe has been plagued by a systematic obstruction of justice and refusal from investigators to follow key lines of inquiry. Accusations of torture, tampering with evidence, and a concerted government coverup have also swirled around authorities.

An analysis of telephone calls conducted throughout the night by local police in Iguala and the neighboring town of Cocula, near the garbage dump where the government controversially claims the 43 students were incinerated, revealed some telling clues.

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