A decade after 43 students vanished in Mexico, ex-governor arrested, accused of concealing evidence
Federal prosecutors say he concealed evidence in the disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa students, one of the highest-profile arrests in the case.
- On Thursday, federal prosecutors arrested former Guerrero governor Angel Aguirre, accusing him of concealing evidence related to the 2014 disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers College.
- Authorities believe a cartel in Iguala attacked the students in collusion with security forces, prompting the 2018-2024 administration to classify the 2014 disappearance as a "state crime."
- Attorney General Ernestina Godoy reported that new testimony from two people indicated Aguirre ordered destruction of surveillance footage that could have revealed the students' whereabouts.
- The detention follows the arrest of former Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam, who faces criminal charges of forced disappearance, obstruction of justice, and torture in the same case.
- More than 10 years after the disappearance, the case continues to fuel outrage in Mexico, though only bone fragments from three victims have been positively identified.
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Mexico Arrests Former Governor for Alleged Cover-Up of 2014 Student Massacre
Authorities in Mexico arrested a former governor in connection with the cover-up of an infamous massacre where police forces kidnapped 43 education students during a protest. The police turned them over to cartel gunmen who are believed to have slaughtered them and disposed of their bodies. The post Mexico Arrests Former Governor for Alleged Cover-Up of 2014 Student Massacre appeared first on Breitbart.
Mexico: Former Guerrero State Governor Arrested in Ayotzinapa Forced Disappearance Case
Officials of Mexico’s Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC) arrested the former Guerrero state governor, Ángel Heladio Aguirre Rivero, at 9:46 a.m. local time on Friday, August 7, at the Tepotzotlán toll booth in Estado de México. Aguirre is accused of concealing revelatory recordings related to the Ayotzinapa Case, in which police and military officials forcibly disappeared 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Normal Sc…
Ángel Aguirre is accused of destroying evidence in the Ayotzinapa case, which has become one of the country's most serious state scandals.
By Uriel Blanco, CNN en Español. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Friday that the arrest of former Guerrero governor Ángel Aguirre was made possible by “new investigative methods” employed by the Attorney General's Office (FGR), including “scientific analysis” of evidence related to the disappearance of the 43 students from the Ayotzinapa teachers' college in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero nearly 12 years ago.
Former Mexican governor arrested over disappearance of 43 students in 2014
FILE – Angel Aguirre, governor of the state of Guerrero, announces he is stepping aside during a press conference in Chilpancingo, Mexico, Oct. 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Alejandrino Gonzalez, File)
Mexican ex-governor arrested in cover-up of missing students
MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities have arrested the former governor of the southern state Guerrero for his alleged involvement in the disappearance of 43 students in 2014, a case that has become a symbol for impunity and state involvement in cartel violence.
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