ayotzinapa

Mexican Federal Agents Implicated in Students’ Disappearance

teleSUR – April 14 2016 Two Mexican federal police officers allegedly participated in the disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa students, the National Human Rights Commission said Thursday, implicating national agents in the 2014 case for the first time, Agence France-Presse reports. Jose Larrieta Carrasco, a commission official investigating the case, said the authorities should now look […]

Porkins Policy radio ep. 32 After Iguala: Reorganizing the narco chessboard

On this week’s episode Traces of Reality’s contributing editor Danny Benavides joins us once again to discuss the mass disappearance in Iguala, narco-cartel reorganization and the prospect for a “Mexican Spring.”  We begin the conversation by discussing what actually transpired last September in the city of Iguala, in southern Mexico.  Danny explains  who the Normalista students are and why, in fact, they were in Iguala.  Danny and I explore the complex web of connections and familial relations between Iguala Mayor Jose Luis Abarca, his wife Maria d