IGUALA STUDENTS MASSACRE

IGUALA STUDENTS MASSACRE

• On September 26, 2014, 43 male students were kidnapped.
• These students all attended Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico.
• Some people today believe that this was an organized crime.

IGUALA STUDENTS MASSACRE

• According to official reports, the students’ were boarding buses to travel to Mexico City.
• They were going to commemorate the anniversary of the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre.
• The Tlatelolco massacre was the killing of students and civilians by military and police. This is also considered part of the Mexican Dirty War.

IGUALA STUDENTS MASSACRE

• At 8:15 p.m., the students made the first strike, boarding a bus that had stopped in front of a restaurant.
• The bus driver told them that he needed to make a stop at Iguala’s central bus station, but when they got there the driver locked the students in the bus.
• Around 9:15 p.m., the students in the two other buses arrived at the station and freed their classmates.
• The students then all left the station, and that’s when corruption began.

IGUANA STUDENTS MASSACRE

• Police came and started shooting at the buses.
• A group of students left the bus and started throwing rocks at the police, and another group tried to disarm the police officers.
• Then students jumped back on the buses and tried to drive away.
• The police were able to cut off the buses and some students got off the bus to try to move the vehicle out of the way.
• Police then opened fire and students tried to run to hide behind the buses, one student was shot in the head and another was shot in the hand.

IGUALA STUDENTS MASSACRE

• The police were able to encircle the bus.
• The police punctured the tires and forced the college students onboard and behind the bus to go with them.

IGUALA STUDENTS MASSACRE

• Witnesses said that military intelligence, state officers, and federal police were watching.
• Witnesses also said that the students were put into police vehicles, were taken away, and have not been seen since.

IGUALA STUDENTS MASSACRE

• Some details remain unclear, but the government investigation concluded that the 43 students were taken into custody.
• After, they were handed over to Gurreros Unidos (“United Warriors”) and killed.
• The Gurreros Unidos were part of a drug cartel.

IGUALA STUDENTS MASSACRE

• In 2015, police arrested a drug cartel boss named Gildardo López Astudillo.
• Gildardo told officials that the students had been mistaken for a group of drug traffickers.

IGUALA STUDENTS MASSACRE

• The men involved confessed to taking the students to a dump in Cocula.
• Each was shot and burned.

IGUALA STUDENTS MASSACRE

• The controversy today is that the government has not solved the mystery of what really happened.
• To this day, no bodies off the college students have been found.

GRACIAS

WORKS CITED

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Iguala_mass_kidnapping
• https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/25/world/americas/missing-mexican-students-...