Former Mexican governor arrested over alleged cover-up in missing students case
- A former Mexican governor has been arrested for his alleged involvement in the disappearance of 43 students in 2014, a case that has become a symbol for impunity and state involvement in cartel violence.
- Federal prosecutors confirmed on Thursday that they arrested Ángel Aguirre, the ex-governor of the southern state Guerrero, following accusations of “concealing evidence to determine the whereabouts of the students" of the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College.
- Aguirre is the highest-profile arrest in the case to date since the detention of former federal Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam, who i
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- A former Mexican governor has been arrested for his alleged involvement in the disappearance of 43 students in 2014, a case that has become a symbol for impunity and state involvement in cartel violence.
- Federal prosecutors confirmed on Thursday that they arrested Ángel Aguirre, the ex-governor of the southern state Guerrero, following accusations of “concealing evidence to determine the whereabouts of the students" of the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College.
- Aguirre is the highest-profile arrest in the case to date since the detention of former federal Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam, who i
Sources: The Independent