Feds Take Control of Municipalities Linked to Cartels in Mexico's Guerrero State Maria Versa - The Associated Press
go to original October 20, 2014

Relatives of the 43 missing students from the Isidro Burgos rural teachers college walk with images of their missing loved ones near the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City on Sunday. (Marco Ugarte/AP)

MEXICO CITY — Federal police have taken control of 13 municipalities in southern Mexico where local police are suspected of links to organized crime and possibly to the case of 43 missing students, a top official said.

The municipalities are all within a roughly 200-kilometre radius of Iguala, the town where the students from a rural teachers’ college disappeared more than three weeks ago after a confrontation with police. Twelve of the municipalities are in Guerrero state and one is in Mexico state. Among them are the tourist destinations of Taxco and Ixtapan de la Sal.

National Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido said Sunday night that authorities investigating the disappearance of the students found “irregularities” and “presumed links to organized crime” in the 13 municipal police forces.

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