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| A Mexican mayor and his wife were the “probable masterminds” behind the disappearance of 43 student teachers last month, the country’s attorney general has said as he issued arrest warrants for the pair. | A Mexican mayor and his wife were the “probable masterminds” behind the disappearance of 43 student teachers last month, the country’s attorney general has said as he issued arrest warrants for the pair. |
| The students went missing on 26 September from Iguala in the south-western state of Guerrero after they clashed with police. The incident sent shockwaves across Mexico and undermined President Enrique Peña Nieto’s claims that Mexico is getting safer under his watch. | The students went missing on 26 September from Iguala in the south-western state of Guerrero after they clashed with police. The incident sent shockwaves across Mexico and undermined President Enrique Peña Nieto’s claims that Mexico is getting safer under his watch. |
| So far, federal authorities have arrested 52 people in connection with the incident, including dozens of police with links to a gang called Guerreros Unidos, or United Warriors. The gang’s leader, Sidronio Casarrubias, was caught last week. | So far, federal authorities have arrested 52 people in connection with the incident, including dozens of police with links to a gang called Guerreros Unidos, or United Warriors. The gang’s leader, Sidronio Casarrubias, was caught last week. |
| Thousands marched in Iguala on Wednesday to protest against the disappearance of the student teachers. After the march, masked men set fire to the municipal offices with molotov cocktails and smashed the windows. | |
| In Mexico City, the attorney general, Jesus Murillo, said Casarrubias had told prosecutors that Iguala’s mayor, José Luis Abarca, and his wife, María de los Ángeles Pineda, had ordered two local police forces to stop the students from disrupting a political event that day. | |
| “We have issued warrants for the arrest of Iguala mayor José Luis Abarca, his wife Mrs Pineda Villa and police chief Felipe Flores Velázquez, as probable masterminds of the events that occurred in Iguala on 26 September,” Murillo said at a press conference. | “We have issued warrants for the arrest of Iguala mayor José Luis Abarca, his wife Mrs Pineda Villa and police chief Felipe Flores Velázquez, as probable masterminds of the events that occurred in Iguala on 26 September,” Murillo said at a press conference. |
| During the incident, police shot and killed one student and detained the others before turning them over to Guerreros Unidos gang members, Murillo added. He said the gang then mistook the students for members of rival criminal group Los Rojos, or The Reds. | During the incident, police shot and killed one student and detained the others before turning them over to Guerreros Unidos gang members, Murillo added. He said the gang then mistook the students for members of rival criminal group Los Rojos, or The Reds. |
| He also said that according to Casarrubias’ information, Pineda, who the government says comes from a family of high-ranking drug traffickers, was Guerreros Unidos’s top boss within the Iguala government. | |
| Authorities continue to investigate nine mass graves in the area where they have already found 30 bodies. Initial examinations showed none of the bodies belonged to the students. | Authorities continue to investigate nine mass graves in the area where they have already found 30 bodies. Initial examinations showed none of the bodies belonged to the students. |
| The case has overshadowed Peña Nieto’s bid to restore order in Mexico and shift the focus away from endemic gang violence and on to economic growth in Latin America’s second biggest economy. Drug violence exploded during the rule of his predecessor, Felipe Calderón, and has claimed about 100,000 lives since 2007. | |
| Security forces killed 19 suspected criminals in the state of Tamaulipas on Tuesday alone, the state government said on Wednesday. | Security forces killed 19 suspected criminals in the state of Tamaulipas on Tuesday alone, the state government said on Wednesday. |