The Shipwreck of the Mexican State

When a police force arrests 43 students and hands them over to organized crime, which kill them as a “lesson” [the attack to which "Ayotzinapa" refers, in the previous post], the police work for a narco-State that entwines organized crime and political power. The same police force also machine-gunned students, killing six and seriously wounding six more; it seized one student, tore the skin from his face, ripped out his eyes and left him lying in the street. This is a narco-State that practices terrorism.

These things happened in Iguala, the third-largest city in the state of Guerrero, Mexico. The police attacked a group of students from the Ayotzinapa rural teachers college and are accused of leading them to their deaths. Iguala’s mayor, José Luis Abarca, and his wife, María de Los Angeles, who have close links with a cartel in the region, are suspected of ordering this operation. They were arrested on November 4.

Mexico’s rural teachers colleges were established 80 years ago to provide high-quality rural teaching and give young teachers from poor backgrounds the chance to better themselves. But these aims, inherited from the revolution (1910-17), have clashed with the neoliberal economic model adopted since the 1980s.

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