"Top local cop arrested in missing 43 Mexican students case"
By: Michael Martinez and Shasta Darlington
Source: CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/22/world/americas/mexico-missing-43-students-arrest/index.html?hpt=hp_inthenews
Cesar Nava Gonzalez from Mexico City was recently arrested for his connections to the disappearance of he 43 college students. Nava was a top local police official and the former deputy director of the Cocula police department. He had been on the run since the disappearance of the students back in September. Nava was allegedly called to the neighboring town of Iguala and helped round up the 43 students. He then allegedly handed them over to a drug dealing gang for them to be massacred. There is no solid evidence to this information. Nava has yet to be apprehended.
On September 26, 2014, the 43 students went missing after they traveled in buses about 77 miles away from their college into Iguala. They were going into this city to protest a speech by the mayor's wife. After arriving, things got violent with the police. Authorities believe that this is when the 43 students were captured by the Iguala police and turned over to a gang only to be executed 14 miles away. The mayor of Iguala was also arrested for six counts of aggravated homicide and one count of attempted homicide.
Overall, 75 people have been arrested for having connections to the disappearance. Federal authorities say they heard confessions from drug traffickers saying that the college students were in fact rounded up on the orders of the Iguala mayor and then delivered to the drug gang to be executed. Families are not accepting this and want actual proof of what happened. On Thursday, tens of thousands of people went to Mexico City to protest against the injustices. These protests ended in violent clashes with police.
The people of Mexico City put their faith and safety in the hands of these police officials and mayor...But not even they can be trusted anymore.
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