Protesters jam road demanding Mexico find students

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Oct 8, 5:03 PM EDT

Protesters jam road demanding Mexico find students

By MARK STEVENSON
Associated Press



AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo

CHILPANCINGO, Mexico (AP) -- Tens of thousands of teachers, activists and residents marched and blocked a major highway in the Guerrero state capital Wednesday to protest the disappearance of 43 teachers college students and demand that authorities find them.

The protesters shut down the highway that links Mexico City with Acapulco, marching behind a banner asking "Who governs Guerrero?" - a reference to the fact that local police working with organized crime have been implicated in the disappearances in the city of Iguala.

"Whose hands are we in?" said Rosa Ruth Rodriguez Mendiola, a housewife from the city of Atoyac who joined in the march in Chilpancingo.

Investigators still had no word on whether the 28 bodies found in a mass grave over the weekend included any of the missing students, who disappeared after two attacks allegedly involving Iguala police in which six people were killed and at least 25 wounded.

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[Comrade Grumpy]

1. Guerrero has a long history of this kind of repression, but this is the worst massacre in awhile.

Looks like crooked Iguala cops hooked up with the Guerreros Unidos dope gang. Business as usual in Mexico.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Hundreds of civilian militiamen join search for 43 missing Mexican students

Hundreds of civilian militiamen join search for 43 missing Mexican students
Updated 9 October 2014, 7:22 AEST

Hundreds of civilian militiamen have searched a town in southern Mexico to look for 43 missing students amid fears they have been executed by a gang working with local police.

As the self-defence forces and federal police carried out the search in the town of Iguala, thousands of people protested in Guerrero state capital Chilpancingo to demand justice in a case that has shocked Mexico.

Protests were due to be held in Mexico City to pressure the government of president Enrique Pena Nieto to investigate why gang-linked police attacked the students on September 26.

In Iguala, a town of 140,000 people surrounded by mountains and corn fields, the militiamen climbed a hill, using machetes to cut through vegetation near the site of a mass grave where 28 unidentified bodies were found last weekend.

More:
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/2014-10-09/hundreds-of-civilian-militiamen-join-search-for-43-missing-mexican-students/1377075

[Dreamer Tatum]

3. CIA. nt

[Judi Lynn]

4. There's little mystery to this mass grave: Mexico's drug war is killing children

There's little mystery to this mass grave: Mexico's drug war is killing children

Young people are now targeted by the very people sworn to protect them. If this isn’t the ultimate duplicity of abusive law enforcement, what is?

Laura Carlsen
theguardian.com, Tuesday 7 October 2014 13.38 EDT

Many countries prohibit deploying their military for domestic law enforcement: it’s a recipe for violent authoritarian abuse.

But the Obama administration’s prohibitionist drug war is funding and encouraging abuse and brutal, corrupt, mass-grave-level murders throughout Mexico and Central America – enough that even drug-war apologists admit that the appalling increase in human-rights abuses are a result of sending the military and police into communities in the name of anti-trafficking.

In just nine years, the drug war waged by the US and Mexico has created a climate of violence that has claimed more than 100,000 lives throughout the country, many young people – including two horrific massacres and a mass disappearance in the last six months connected to law enforcement nominally tasked with battling the spread of drugs.

An ambush on 26 September, begun by uniformed local police and finished off by an armed commando, left six young people dead and 43 students missing, nearly half of whom were last seen in police custody. Others are battling for their lives in local hospitals (where the possibility of a new attack is considered so high that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights ordered precautionary measures for the wounded and the missing). This week, 28 semi-burned bodies were discovered in a mass grave, which authorities say could be the bodies of the missing students. Politicians allied with cartels are blamed for the atrocity.

More:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/07/mass-grave-mexico-drug-war-killing-children

[whereisjustice]

5. no matter how many jobs we send there, it doesn't stop the killing. eom

[Judi Lynn]

6. In Case of Missing Students, Hillside Mass Graves Point to a Death March

In Case of Missing Students, Hillside Mass Graves Point to a Death March
By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLDOCT. 8, 2014



[font size=1]The badly burned bodies of 28 people were found last weekend in a mass grave on a hillside in the outskirts of the city.
Credit Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times [/font]


IGUALA, Mexico — The journey up — far, far up — to the mass graves here begins on a paved street in a cluttered neighborhood of this industrial city under the thumb of organized crime.

Soon the climb turns rocky, rutted and uneven, pounding the undercarriage of a regular sedan and slowing even four-wheel-drive trucks. Then it gives way to gravel and more jagged stones before jerking and jarring to an end at a narrow, forest-shrouded trail impassable for any vehicle.

Along this last, steep stretch, with overhanging vines and branches forcing a hunched walk and strenuous stepping, it becomes eerily clear that the people in these hillside graves were brought up here alive and then marched to their deaths.

That is what prosecutors believe happened to at least some of the 28 people whose bodies, badly burned and some dismembered, were found over the weekend in several pits on the hill, discovered only after witnesses in custody revealed the horrors committed here.

More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/09/world/americas/in-case-of-mexicos-missing-students-hillside-mass-graves-point-to-a-death-march.html?_r=0