'La Noche de Iguala' Docudrama About Mexico's Missing Students Causes Stir Agence France-Presse
go to original October 17, 2015

La Noche de Iguala trailer (Proyecto 40)

Even before hitting movie screens, a docudrama about the disappearance of 43 college students raised hackles in Mexico for echoing the government's disputed conclusions in the case.

Survivors say "La Noche de Iguala" (The Night of Iguala) exploits the tragedy and paints the students as criminals.

Columns have been written against the film and a petition was created on Change.org in a bid to block the movie, which debuts in 30 Mexico City cinemas on Friday.

Its director, journalist Jorge Fernandez Menendez, has defended his movie as the "uncomfortable truth."

The film's trailer shows reenactments of the horrific night of Sept 26, 2014, when scores of students from a teacher college were attacked by police in league with the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel in the city of Iguala.

One scene shows a hitman accusing his victims of belonging to a rival gang in the southern state of Guerrero. Another shows bodies piled up and torched at a garbage dump.

Independent investigators and parents of the students have rejected the government's conclusion that the cartel killed and incinerated the students at the landfill after confusing them with Los Rojos gang members.

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