A Mexican state government building and at least a dozen cars were set afire by protesters in the city of Chilpancingo on Monday; they demand answers in the case of 43 students who disappeared.
CHILPANCINGO, Mexico — Protesters in southern Mexico set the state government building afire Monday and torched at least a dozen cars in the parking lot. The protests occurred in the violence-wracked city of Chilpancingo, the capital of the Pacific coast state of Guerrero.
The protesters are demanding answers in the case of 43 students at a rural teachers college who disappeared in 2014. Another student from that college was killed in a confrontation with police in March. The Guerrero state government said in a statement that it 'regrets and condemns the violent acts.' The government noted the state interior secretary had resigned following the March confrontation with students. The police officers involved are under investigation in the death.
After an initial cover up, last year a government truth commission concluded that local, state and federal authorities colluded with the gang to murder the students in what it called a 'state crime.' The under-funded radical rural teachers’ colleges in Mexico have a decades-long tradition of violent protests. In fact, when they were abducted, the students themselves had been hijacking passenger buses which they were going to use to travel to another protest.
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