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Fugitive Mexican Mayor and Wife Are Detained in Case of Missing Students
The New York Times ^ | NOV. 4, 2014 | RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD

Posted on 11/04/2014 7:22:53 AM PST by ConservingFreedom

MEXICO CITY — The fugitive mayor of the Mexican town where 43 college students were apparently abducted in September after he reportedly ordered the police to attack them has been detained along with his wife, a federal official said on Tuesday.

José Ramón Salinas, a spokesman for the federal police, said on Twitter that Mayor José Luis Abarca of Iguala and his wife, María de los Ángeles Pineda Villa, were arrested in Mexico City, 120 miles north of Iguala, but gave no other details.

Their detention could provide a pivotal break in a case that has frustrated the authorities since Sept. 26, when an outbreak of violence in Iguala left six people dead, including three students. The students, who were part of a large group from a left-wing teachers’ college with a history of provocative protest, were soliciting donations and stealing buses for transportation to a coming demonstration.

Mr. Abarca and his wife were believed to have close ties to a drug gang, Guerreros Unidos, which had been linked to corruption in the Iguala police force and several others in Guerrero State. [...]

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: missing

1 posted on 11/04/2014 7:22:53 AM PST by ConservingFreedom
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To: ConservingFreedom

Barry will grant them amnesty and they will be here shortly.


2 posted on 11/04/2014 7:25:22 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: Resolute Conservative

Cabinet positions or czarships...


3 posted on 11/04/2014 7:28:10 AM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: ConservingFreedom

Stay out of Old Mehico.


4 posted on 11/04/2014 7:30:16 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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To: ConservingFreedom
"The students, who were part of a large group from a left-wing teachers’ college with a history of provocative protest, were soliciting donations and stealing buses for transportation to a coming demonstration.
5 posted on 11/04/2014 7:36:48 AM PST by Dallas59
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To: Dallas59
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
6 posted on 11/04/2014 7:37:57 AM PST by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: ConservingFreedom

For the record, the Mayor may belong to a “Left Wing” party as well, I think I read that.

One thing is for certain, recently in Guerrero, an official in the Conservative Party without a doubt, PAN was assassinated. http://www.eurasiareview.com/29092014-mexico-pan-secretary-assassinated/

Yeah, I’d stay out, definitely wouldn’t even step into the criminally infested nation. So what are we doing? Bringing it here.


7 posted on 11/04/2014 8:20:33 AM PST by BeadCounter (We vote pro-life.)
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To: ConservingFreedom

“The Case of the Missing Children” quick get “Encyclopedia Brown” or in Mexico “Enciclopedia marrón” on the case!


8 posted on 11/04/2014 8:24:32 AM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: GraceG
Brown


9 posted on 11/04/2014 8:53:47 AM PST by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: ConservingFreedom

Bookmark


10 posted on 11/04/2014 9:09:24 AM PST by publius911 (Formerly Publius6961)
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