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Families of Missing Student Say Mexican Authorities Alleging Ties to Cartels

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Relatives of the 43 trainee teachers who went missing nearly a month ago in the southern Mexican city of Iguala after being attacked by municipal police warned the federal government not to try to lower social tensions by leveling false accusations against the students.

“The federal government should know that we’re not at peace, much less so now that they’re trying to distract attention from this (crime),” Felipe de Jesus, a relative of one of the missing youths, told Efe Friday, insisting that the families will not rest until they are found.

Relatives and classmates of the students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Normal School, a nearby teacher-training facility in Guerrero state, said their attorneys have learned that the federal Attorney General’s Office is pursuing a line of investigation that seeks to link the missing youths to the Los Rojos cartel.

That gang is a rival of the Guerreros Unidos drug mob, which allegedly infiltrated the Iguala police force and local government.

The attorneys, who have access to the case files under an agreement with the Mexican government, say transcripts of statements by some of the 52 suspects in the case show that they told investigators the youths were using buses to transport members of Los Rojos and were attacked for that reason.

Most of the detained suspects are Iguala police officers with suspected links to Guerreros Unidos.

“We want to refute the story the federal government is concocting to try to incriminate these kids,” De Jesus said, calling it a smear campaign aimed at “lowering the level of pressure” being exerted through mass marches in Guerrero and elsewhere in Mexico.

Local police fired at the students on the night of Sept. 26 at the behest of then-Iguala Mayor Jose Luis Abarca, and his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda, suspected Guerreros Unidos operators who are now fugitives, according to Attorney General Jesus Murillo.

Six people died that night, including three trainee teachers; 25 were wounded; and 43 others were detained by police and turned over to a Guerreros Unidos lieutenant identified as “Gil.”

The whereabouts of the youths remains unknown because the 52 suspects detained by authorities, including purported Guerreros Unidos leader Sidronio Casarrubias, do not include “Gil” or two other suspected members of the cartel who allegedly received the students from the hands of police.

The family members met this week with Murillo, according to De Jesus, who told Efe that the prosecutor expressed the government’s commitment to finding the youths but at no time “told them that this situation was happening (the incriminating line of investigation)” and “at no time mentioned what the (detained suspects) were saying.”

A group of students at the Ayotzinapa Rural Normal School, for their part, gave a press conference in which they slammed investigators for attempting to criminalize their classmates.

“From one moment to the next, we went from being victims to suspects,” student spokesman Pedro David said, saying the suspicions that have been raised about the missing students are an “affront to the families, to their mothers, and indirectly are an affront to society.”

Published in Latino Daily News


Source: http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/latino-daily-news/details/families-of-missing-student-say-mexican-authorities-alleging-ties-to-cartel/31374#When:20:05:28Z


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