2 detectives were searching for students who went missing a decade ago in Mexico. Now they have disappeared themselves.

[Judi Lynn]

March 12, 2024 / 3:18 PM EDT / CBS/AP


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2 detectives were searching for students who went missing a decade ago in Mexico. Now they have disappeared themselves.
March 12, 2024 / 3:18 PM EDT / CBS/AP


Two detectives looking for 43 students who went missing almost 10 years ago have themselves disappeared in Mexico's Pacific coast state of Guerrero, Mexico's president said Tuesday.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that a search effort has been launched to find the two federal detectives, a man and a woman. Speaking at his daily news briefing, López Obrador said, "I hope this is not related to those who do not want us to find the youths."

The disappearances were the latest sign of what appeared to be a generalized breakdown in law and order in Guerrero state, home to the resort city of Acapulco. The state has been dogged for a decade by the case of 43 students from a rural teachers' college who disappeared in 2014 and are believed to have been abducted by local officials and turned over to a drug gang to be killed.




CRIME
2 detectives were searching for students who went missing a decade ago in Mexico. Now they have disappeared themselves.
March 12, 2024 / 3:18 PM EDT / CBS/AP


Two detectives looking for 43 students who went missing almost 10 years ago have themselves disappeared in Mexico's Pacific coast state of Guerrero, Mexico's president said Tuesday.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that a search effort has been launched to find the two federal detectives, a man and a woman. Speaking at his daily news briefing, López Obrador said, "I hope this is not related to those who do not want us to find the youths."

The disappearances were the latest sign of what appeared to be a generalized breakdown in law and order in Guerrero state, home to the resort city of Acapulco. The state has been dogged for a decade by the case of 43 students from a rural teachers' college who disappeared in 2014 and are believed to have been abducted by local officials and turned over to a drug gang to be killed.

Mexico Missing Students
Relatives of 43 missing Ayotzinapa university students hold signs with images and the names of their missing loved ones, on the 9th anniversary of their disappearance, in front of the National Palace in Mexico City, Sept. 26, 2023.
MARCO UGARTE / AP

Students at that college, located in Tixtla, north of Acapulco, have a long history of demonstrating and clashing with police, and last week a student was fatally shot in what police said was a confrontation with students riding in a stolen car.

One of the police officers involved in that shooting had been detained and placed under investigation in the case, after the president described the shooting as "an abuse of authority" and confirmed the dead student had not fired a gun.

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[MontanaMama]

1. This is awful. n/t

[Voltaire2]

2. The New Yorker just recently published a long article about the investigation

into the deaths of the 43. I hope that was not a motivation for the disappeared investigators, but it seems unlikely to be simply coincidence.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/11/what-really-happened-to-the-forty-three

[Easterncedar]

3. Terrible news. Cartels are everywhere

I asked a friend who stays at some resort every winter about how safe she feels in Mexico, and she said the resort is completely controlled by organized crime so all the Americans are protected. Geese and golden eggs and all that.

I hate that. But then my hometown of Niagara Falls has always had a solid mafia presence.