A report released by Argentine forensics specialists argues that the Mexican government mishandled the investigation into the death of 43 university students. The Mexican attorney general's office has criticized the forensics team's involvement and findings, arguing they are instigating doubt in an investigation the Mexican government considers nearly solved.
Mexico's attorney general Jesus Murillo Karam has stated he can now prove the fate of the 43 missing students who disappeared in the southern state of Guerrero last September.
The decapitated body of Mexican journalist Moises Sanchez has been recovered. The journalist, who reported on political corruption and drug related violence for the weekly newspaper La Union in the town of Medellin de Bravo, had been missing for three weeks.
Mexican police have arrested last Friday a member of a criminal drug gang linked with the murder of 43 student teachers in the southern city of Iguala last September
Maria de los Angeles Pineda, the wife of Jose Luis Abarca, former mayor of the Mexican city of Iguala where 43 college students went missing in September, has been formally charged with organized crime and money laundering.
An anonymous 20-year-old sex worker who was one of three witnesses known to have survived a mass killing by the Mexican army that took place on June 30 has revealed in that she was severely beaten, tortured, and threatened by state investigators for refusing to sign a false confession.
According to Mexico City-based news magazine Proceso, Mexican federal authorities may have had real-time information regarding the attack on 43 student teachers by local police and yet did nothing to stop their disappearance or murder.
On Sunday in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero police clashed with protesters attempting to organize a concert in the city of Chilpancingo in support of the 43 missing students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers' College of Ayotzinapa that disappeared over two months ago.
In an interview with Telemundo, President Barack Obama expressed the help his administration offered Mexico in trying to figure out what happen to the 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers' College who went missing in September, a tragedy that he said had "no place in civilized society."
Tests have identified the remains of one of 43 students who disappeared in Mexico on Sept. 26. Tests have identified the remains of one of 43 students who disappeared in Mexico on Sept.
Since the disappearance of 43 Mexican students from a teachers college in September, a discussion has emerged on the beneficiaries of the war on drugs.
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto submitted a bill to Congress on Monday that aims to replace the country's most corrupt municipal police forces within the next two years
On Monday protesters marched in several cities in Mexico to observe the second anniversary of President Enrique Pena Nieto's administration and to demand that the government find the 43 male students who went missing at the hands of police and are assumed to have been murdered.
In Mexico, 11 people who had been arrested in recent anti-government demonstrations and sent to maximum-security prisons have been released without charges.
Bus drivers in Tixtla, where 43 students from the Raul Isidro Burgos teachers college disappeared, say they are being held captive, forced by protesting student activists to act as chauffeurs.
