Government Struggles to Clear Up 2014 Death of 43 Ayotzinapa Students Laurence Iliff and Ileana Najarro - The Wall Street Journal
go to original January 6, 2016

Demonstrators marched in Mexico City on Dec. 26 to mark the 15-month anniversary of the disappearance of 43 students from a teachers college in Ayotzinapa. (Edgard Garrido/Reuters)

A key witness in Mexico’s probe of the abduction and presumed slaying of 43 students from a teachers college in 2014 described his detention by federal police in graphic terms.

“They took me to a vehicle, they blindfolded me, tied my feet and hands, and began beating me again and giving me electrical shocks and they put a rag on my nose, pouring water on me,” detainee Patricio Reyes Landa said in testimony that didn’t surfaced publicly until a year after his arrest.

Investigation into massacre of students continues: Listen to the report by Janes Blears (Vatican Radio)

The police claimed Mr. Reyes injured himself after falling down drunk while fleeing from officers in October 2014, a month after the mass disappearance, according to the case file released recently by the Attorney General’s Office. But a medical expert ruled Mr. Reyes’ injuries were consistent with torture tactics used to force confessions.

Mr. Reyes’s torture claims are part of a snowballing series of revelations that have upended the Mexican government’s investigation into the country’s highest profile crime in decades, a presumed mass slaying that drew world-wide attention and marked a downturn in the popularity of President Enrique Peña Nieto.

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Related: Zapatistas Host Mexico's Ayotzinapa Families (High Times)

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