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  • Inside the Mexican College Where 43 Students Vanished After a Violent Encounter With Police

    10/22/2014 1:54:55 PM PDT · by BBell · 25 replies
    vice.com ^ | 10/06/14 | Melissa del Pozo
    The minute they heard their son was one of the missing normalista students believed to have been killed by police in Mexico, Manuel and Hilda González got on a bus and traveled nine hours to make it here, the Raul Isidro Burgos Ayotzinapa Normal School, in the southern state of Guerrero. Their son, César Manuel González Hernández, is 19 and a second-year teaching student at Ayotzinapa, a Revolutionary-era rural teachers college known nationally for the ardently leftist politics that guide everything the students do and study. César is now among the 43 normalista students missing since September 26, when a...
  • Protesters burn Mexican city’s government offices over suspected murder of students

    10/18/2014 1:35:57 AM PDT · by blueplum · 25 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | October 13, 2014 | Nick Miroff
    MEXICO CITY — Protesters ransacked and burned government offices Monday in Chilpancingo, the capital of Guerrero state, in an explosion of outrage over the suspected kidnapping and murder of 43 students by corrupt local police. Anti-government rallies have been held in several Mexican cities since the students’ disappearance Sept. 26 and the subsequent discovery of mass graves outside Iguala, about 120 miles south of Mexico City. But on Monday, the protests turned violent.