Summary: Two years ago, forty-three Mexican college students vanished in the city of Iguala. A ghastly case has developed and President Enrique Pena Nieto is being accused of a scandal. “The investigation is bogged down in conflicting theories, contradictory statements, incompatible hypotheses and reports of forced confessions, planted evidence and debate over what happened to the bodies” (McDonnell and Sanchez).
Two years have passed since the mysterious incident and loss of forty-three students. Parents walk miles through the heart of the capital holding pictures of their disappeared loved ones. Relatives have been calling this a “historic lie,” and “in April the official account was shattered by a panel of international lawyers summoned by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights” (McDonnell & Sanchez). The panel discovered that the evidence from the case had been tampered with by the Mexican government officials. The government does not want to pursue this scandal in court any longer. One hundred thirty people have been …show more content…
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, “along with other experts, has also raised doubts about whether a fire sufficient to incinerate the remains of the forty-three men had ever occurred at the garbage dump” (McDonnel & Sanchez). Sadly, the people of Mexico, especially the parents of those who disappeared, are now living in “fear that someone will kill or disappear them” (McDonnell & Sanchez). The main investigator of this case has resigned but the case still remains open. The police are planning on continuing a new search for the students remains. This scandal could possibly be compared to the Obama scandal. Obama kept information from us Americans for quite some time. He was asked to show his birth certificate, but why did it take him so long. Although the forty-three missing is a more serious topic, hopefully the government will come out with the
Two years have passed since the mysterious incident and loss of forty-three students. Parents walk miles through the heart of the capital holding pictures of their disappeared loved ones. Relatives have been calling this a “historic lie,” and “in April the official account was shattered by a panel of international lawyers summoned by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights” (McDonnell & Sanchez). The panel discovered that the evidence from the case had been tampered with by the Mexican government officials. The government does not want to pursue this scandal in court any longer. One hundred thirty people have been …show more content…
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, “along with other experts, has also raised doubts about whether a fire sufficient to incinerate the remains of the forty-three men had ever occurred at the garbage dump” (McDonnel & Sanchez). Sadly, the people of Mexico, especially the parents of those who disappeared, are now living in “fear that someone will kill or disappear them” (McDonnell & Sanchez). The main investigator of this case has resigned but the case still remains open. The police are planning on continuing a new search for the students remains. This scandal could possibly be compared to the Obama scandal. Obama kept information from us Americans for quite some time. He was asked to show his birth certificate, but why did it take him so long. Although the forty-three missing is a more serious topic, hopefully the government will come out with the