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Mexico: protesters mobilize on massacre anniversary
On the one-year anniversary of the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico's southern state of Guerrero, thousands of protesters filled the streets of Mexico City.
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Mexico: more holes in missing students case
The Mexican government says it has identified a second set of remains from the 43 missing students, but an Argentine forensic team working on the case questions the claim.
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Official version of Mexican massacre questioned
An Inter-American Commission on Human Rights report calls into question the Mexican government's own investigation of the disappearance of 43 students in Guerrero.
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Mexico: activist slain in missing students case
Miguel Ángel Jiménez Blanco, a leading activist in Mexico's violence-torn Guerrero state and a vocal advocate for the families of the 43 missing students, was himself assassinated.
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Mexico: violence continues in wake of elections
Mexico's ruling coalition kept its slim majority in elections marred by violence and assassination of candidates. Striking teachers attempted to disrupt the vote, calling it a farce.
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Mexico: cartels declare open season on candidates
Mexico's drug cartels appear to have declared open season on any candidate for public office who will not toe their line in the run-up to June's midterm elections.
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Kin of missing Mexican students take protest to US
Family members of some of the 43 missing students held a vigil in New York City's Union Square—one stop on a tour of US cities to raise awareness on their plight.
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Mexico: narco-gang decapitates mayoral candidate
Aide Nava, running for mayor in Mexico's conflicted southern state of Guerrero, was found decapitated a day after she was abducted in her hometown of Ahuacuotzingo.
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Mexico: UN criticizes officials on disappearances
The Mexican government is facing more international criticism for its handling of some 22,600 cases of forced disappearances over the past eight years.
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Mexico: official Ayotzinapa claims disputed
The Mexican government claims the case of the missing 43 students is solved, but outside forensic experts say problems with the inquiry make it impossible to be sure.
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Mexico: students’ parents storm army base
Parents of 43 missing Ayotzinapa students insist that the military knows more than it admits about their abduction. Meanwhile, the government's version gets shakier and shakier.
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Chicago link to Mexican mass abduction?
Another major bust of an accused Mexican cartel operative in Chicago this time involves the Guerreros Unidos—the gang named in the the disappearance of 43 college students.