Title: A massacre in Mexico : the true story behind the missing forty-three students /
Authors: Hernández, Anabel; Washington, John
Year: 2018
Subjects: Escuela Normal Rural de Ayotzinapa Students Crimes against.; Kidnapping Mexico Iguala de la Independencia.; Mass murder Mexico Iguala de la Independencia.; State-sponsored terrorism Mexico Iguala de la Independencia.; Political persecution Mexico Iguala de la Independencia.; College students Crimes against Mexico Iguala de la Independencia.; Serial murders Mexico Guerrero (State); Missing persons Mexico Guerrero (State); Murder victims Mexico Guerrero (State); Political corruption Mexico Guerrero (State); Rural schools Mexico.; Crime Mexico.; Disappeared persons Mexico Iguala de la Independencia; Violence Mexico History; Students Crimes against Mexico Iguala de la Independencia History; Victims of state-sponsored terrorism Mexico Iguala de la Independencia; Disappeared persons Mexico Iguala de la Independencia History; Students Crimes against Mexico Iguala de la Independencia History; Guerrero (Mexico : State) Politics and government; Iguala de la Independencia (Mexico); Mexico Politics and government; Iguala de la Independencia (Mexico) Politics and government; Guerrero (Mexico : State) Politics and government; Iguala de la Independencia; Mexico
Abstract: "The definitive account of the mass disappearance of 43 Mexican students and the government that tried to cover it up On September 26, 2014, 43 male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College went missing in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. According to official reports, the students commandeered several buses to travel to Mexico City to commemorate the anniversary of the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre. During the journey, local police intercepted the students and a confrontation ensued. By the morning, they had disappeared without a trace. Hernández reconstructs almost minute-by-minute the events of those nights in late September 2014, giving us what is surely the most complete picture available: her sources are unparalleled, since she has secured access to internal government documents that have not been made public, and to video surveillance footage the government has tried to hide and destroy. Hernández demolishes the Mexican state's official version, which the Peña Nieto government cynically dubbed the "historic truth." State officials at all levels, from police and prosecutors to the upper echelons of the PRI administration, conspired to put together a fake case, concealing or manipulating evidence, and arresting and torturing dozens of "suspects" who then obliged with full "confessions" that matched the official lie. In the wake of the students' disappearances, protestors in Mexico took up the slogan "Fue el estado"-"It was the state." Hernández's book is the one that gives most precision and credibility to the claim: by following the role of the various Mexican state agencies through the events in such remarkable detail, she allows to see exactly which parts of the state are responsible for which component of this monumental crime"--
Contents: Red dawn -- The week before : the key days -- Ayotzinapa -- The first cover-up -- The story of the Abarcas -- Manufacturing guilty parties -- The "historical falsehood" -- The killing hours -- The last breath -- The dark hours -- The true night of Iguala.