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[elbows]

It sounds like that was last weekend, I don't know what the state of unrest is since then.

The mayor was formally charged today:

Prosecutors in the Mexican state of Guerrero said Friday they have formally charged former Iguala Mayor Jose Luis Abarca in the disappearance of 43 students.

Abarca is described as the "probable mastermind" in the September 26 disappearance of the students. He is charged with six counts of aggravated homicide and one count of attempted homicide, the state attorney's office said.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/14/world/americas/mexico-mayor-abduction-charges/

 

[chilango]

It sounds like that was last weekend, I don't know what the state of unrest is since then.

The mayor was formally charged today:



http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/14/world/americas/mexico-mayor-abduction-charges/

Could be. Popped up in my FB feed today. I don't imagine things will be calming down any.

 

[SpackleFrog]

Dwyer's been in both places within the last 5 years, have you?

No. But I don't need to go anywhere to know comparing a pub fight in Cardiff to young trainee teachers being murdered by the state/shadowy drug cartels is a bit fucking off, and neither should you.

 

[chilango]

Sounds like there was some fighting between students and "anarchists" at a demo at the UNAM (hugeMexican university). Curious.

 

[chilango]

No. But I don't need to go anywhere to know comparing a pub fight in Cardiff to young trainee teachers being murdered by the state/shadowy drug cartels is a bit fucking off, and neither should you.

No.

But in fairness to Dwyer I think he was just reacting to the idea that Mexico is this intrinsically dangerous place.

It's not.

I too felt safer in Mexico than I did in Cardiff on a Saturday night as it happens.

And, yes, I went on protests in Mexico.

Obviously there's more to it than that, a lot more, but I don't think we need to come down too hard on Phil here.

 

[phildwyer]

Dwyer's been in both places within the last 5 years, have you?

Actually I've been to both places in the last 5 months. And I'm off to Mexico again on Thursday.

What I say is perfectly true, I don't know why Spacklefrog finds it so offensive. Mexico is not dangerous for gringos. You just have to remember that the police are the criminals, and the criminals are the government. In sharp contrast, St. Mary's St on a Friday night is very dangerous for everybody.

 

[J Ed]

Big protests in Ayotzinapa

 

[Patteran]

Teachers' Union humiliate undercover cops who'd infiltrated a demonstration

 

[rekil]

The remains of one student found on a rubbish tip.

Mexico’s attorney general, Jesús Murillo Karam, said the city’s mayor ordered the police to go after the students and the police handed those they had rounded up over to a local drug gang called Guerreros Unidos. On 7 November Murillo announced that the authorities had collected badly burned human bone fragments from a rubbish tip outside of a neighbouring town called Cocula. He said detained members of the gang had led them to the tip where they said they had participated in the massacre and incineration of dozens of young people on a huge funeral pyre that burned for 15 hours on the same night as the students disappeared.

 

[yield]

The remains of one student found on a rubbish tip.

Mexico’s New President Restarts Investigation Into 43 Missing Students
December 03, 2018

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico created a truth commission on Monday to re-examine the case of 43 students whose disappearance in 2014, still unsolved after a disputed investigation, has come to represent the tens of thousands of Mexicans who have vanished in more than a decade of the drug war.

 

[planetgeli]

Mexico drug wars: Fighting erupts as El Chapo's son goes free

Basically they caught him by chance - and were made to free him in an eruption of violence captured on film. Ah well, more material for Netflix.

Heavy fighting erupts as El Chapo's son goes free (contains video of heavy gunfire).

These are not police.

 

[planetgeli]

Mystery of Mexico’s cartel wars grows as ‘The Mouse’ is rescued

So, no change there then. They didn’t catch him by chance, as first claimed, but in a planned operation that was obviously leaked and designed to fail. The authorities sent just 35 cops to arrest him and were immediately overwhelmed by hundreds of Cartel gunmen who flooded the town and even gave high fives to the cops they neutralised. In an unusual show of restraint the Cartel only killed one cop in the operation, compared, for example, with the 14 they shot in an operation on Monday and another 15 in Guerrero on Tuesday.

If you’re watching Narcos, you’ll have a pretty good understanding of how this all works. Just the 30 years on.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

MEXICO CITY — At least 10 members of a prominent Mormon family – three mothers and their young children – were killed in a shooting attack relatives suspect might have been a case of mistaken identity by drug cartel gunmen. About a dozen family members remain missing.

The victims were U.S. citizens and members of La Mora, a decades-old settlement in Sonora state founded as part of an offshoot of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It's located about 70 miles south of Douglas, Arizona.

The mothers were driving from Bavispe to a wedding in LaBaron, another Mormon community in the state of Chihuahua, when their three vehicles loaded with children were attacked by gunfire, causing one of the vehicles to explode in flames.

Mormon family brutally killed in Mexico: At least 10 dead

Naturally, Trump is using this to portray Mexicans as rapists, drug traffickers, etc. I worry that something like this will get people on his side that previously weren't.

 

[editor]

Mormon family brutally killed in Mexico: At least 10 dead

Naturally, Trump is using this to portray Mexicans as rapists, drug traffickers, etc. I worry that something like this will get people on his side that previously weren't.

Even by the fucked up standards of the Mexican drug gangs, this is particularly shocking. Awful.