On September 26, 2014, forty-three male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College disappeared after being forcibly abducted in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico, in what has been called one of Mexic
Poster issued by the government of Guerrero
"They took them alive. We want them back alive. Solidarity with the 43 disappeared students," the graffiti, written in Uruguay, reads.
Protesters outside the Attorney General's office in Mexico City demanding the safe return of the students, November 2014.
Demonstration on September 26, 2015, on the first anniversary of the mass kidnapping.
Jesús Murillo Karam is a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party. Born in Real del Monte, Hidalgo, he is of Lebanese descent.
Iguala mass kidnapping
…products or that a rival cartel had infiltrated the student group. An early investigation—dubbed "the historic truth"—under Mexican Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam of the government of President Enrique Peña Nieto, concluded corrupt municipal police from Iguala and neighboring towns, following orders from the local…