A Summary Of Injusticers In Iguala, Guerrero

Student protesters in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico have long dealt with heavy-handed police officers. But on the night of September 26, 2014, students who attended the Raul Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers College of Ayotzinapa realized they were facing a far worse danger in this southern city. According to an article from the Huffington Post, the students took several buses and traveled to Iguala that day to hold a protest at a conference led by the mayor's wife. During the journey local police intercepted them and a confrontation arose. Details of what happened during and after the clash remain unclear, but the official investigation concluded that once the students were in custody, they were handed over to the local Guerreros Unidos ("United Warriors") crime syndicate and presumably killed. Mexican authorities claimed Iguala's mayor, José Luis Abarca Velázquez, and his wife Maria de los Angeles Pineda Villa, planned the abduction. …show more content…
He’d had his skin peeled off and his eyes gouged out. It was the mark of drug cartel assassins. Soldiers and federal detectives detained two alleged cartel hit men, who confessed they had conspired with the police to murder students. They led troops to pits on the outskirts of Iguala containing 28 charred corpses, none that matched the DNA of the missing students. A total of 43 students went missing that night; many were last seen being shoved into police cars. In this essay I will describe the abduction of 43 students in Mexico, analyze protests going on because of this incident using Gladwell and Thoreau, and finally propose how I can get involved by participating in protests going on in my local