After Student Disappearances, Iguala's New Mayor Wants to 'Turn the Page' The Associated Press
go to original December 21, 2015

Mexico: Ayotzinapa Families Meet with Interior Minister (teleSUR English)

Fifteen months ago, when 43 rural college students disappeared at the hands of local police and cartel thugs, Iguala became the symbol of Mexico's narco-brutality. Now, federal police are in charge of security, the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party controls city hall — and Mayor Esteban Albarran Mendoza wants to move forward.

"Ask the businesspeople, ask the cab drivers, the housewives, those who live daily here in the city, what they are enduring right now...," Albarran said. "There is anxiety. There is not peace. There is not security. We want to turn the page on all these kinds of things."

But how can this city move on when, according to a local newspaper's count, there were five murders during Albarran's first week in office, and 25 in his first two months?

Disappearances continue, and most of the missing have not been found. For hundreds of families around Iguala there is no possibility of turning the page as long as they have no proof of death or a body to mourn.

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