2014-11-14 08:21:00

Demonstrations in Mexico over missing students


(Vatican Radio) Demonstrators in Southern Mexico, protesting the disappearance of 43 student teachers, have set fire to the State Congress Buildings.

James Blears also reports that parents of the missing are starting a nationwide tour:

Already this week, protesters have occupied Acapulco's International Airport, burned the headquarters of the Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI in the State Capitol Chilpancingo, and now it's been the turn of the State Legislature complex. The Education building was particularly badly damaged.

A nationwide tour of the missing's parents is already underway, and will culminate in Mexico City.

In the absence of conclusive proof, some families still refuse to believe or accept that their sons and daughters are dead.

Argentine forensic experts have just confirmed that 28 bodies, found in a ditch are not a DNA match.

With a national holiday coming up on Monday, hotel occupancy rates in Acapulco are 70 percent down.

The crisis was sparked by a demonstration in the City of Iguala on September 26th. Municipal police opened fire and six people died, while 25 were wounded. Later, municipal police, handed over 43 terrified students to waiting gangsters. They then vanished.








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