Did Mexico’s Army Help a Mass Murder?
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11.09.151:00 AM ET
Did Mexico’s Army Help a Mass Murder?
The government would like you to believe local cops, politicians, and drug lords did away with 43 student protesters. But it’s now apparent the military played a role as well.
General Salvador Cienfuegos, Chief of Staff of the Mexican Army, four stars, sat on a high-backed leather chair with both feet flat on the floor in front of him and his hands over the knees of his dress uniform. He was facing the camera at a slight angle, the lighting was warm, the room designed in the Louis XV style, the wall behind him a subdued shade of melon with white boiserie, an antique bookcase filled with hardback volumes to his right, the banner of the Mexican Republic to his left.
The general was without his hat, and a microphone was clipped to his coat lapel.
This interview in early October was, the host of the program told us, a very rare thing for a top Mexican military man to do. But it was a moment when some serious explaining seemed to be in order.
In the most recent investigations of the horrific incident in September last year where 43 underclassmen from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers College of Ayotzinapa were rounded up in the town of Iguala and then disappeared—a brutal scandal that continues to send tremors through the Mexican state—the role of the Mexican Army has come to appear problematic.
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