America with Jorge Ramos: Will Anyone Ever Find Mexico's Missing Students? Jorge Ramos and Mariana Atencio - Fusion
go to original October 23, 2014

IGUALA, Mexico – The disappearance of 43 students in Mexico has opened a Pandora’s Box — revealing government corruption, police collusion with drug cartels and political inaction.

Signs on the highway here in Iguala offer a reward of one million pesos — the equivalent of $100,000 — for any information on the students’ whereabouts.

The students came from Ayotzinapa rural teacher’s college in the southern state of Guerrero. On Sept. 26, about 80 of the students were in Iguala — about a two-and-a-half hour drive from the world famous beach resort, Acapulco.

Witnesses say the students commandeered three buses on their way back from a protest. Police chased the students’ buses down and opened fire. Three students died, and three other people were killed in related shootings later that night. Some students were able to get away; 43 others were hauled away in police cars and haven’t been seen since. Investigators believe the police handed them over to a local cartel, Guerreros Unidos.

That was almost a month ago.

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