{"id":868138,"date":"2021-10-11T14:44:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T18:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=868138"},"modified":"2021-10-11T14:44:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T18:44:12","slug":"43-college-students-vanished-7-years-ago-in-mexico-we-finally-know-what-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/43-college-students-vanished-7-years-ago-in-mexico-we-finally-know-what-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"43 College Students Vanished 7 Years Ago In Mexico. We Finally Know What Happened."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F43-college-students-vanished-7-years-ago-in-mexico-we-finally-know-what-happened%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=868138&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1235547071.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>At the end of September 2014, a group of 43 male students from the Rural Teachers College in Ayotzinapa, Mexico, commandeered several buses in order to travel to Mexico City for a protest to mark the 46<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the Tlatelolco student massacre.<\/p>\n<p>The students never made it to the protest, and outside of a few bones, their bodies were never found.<\/p>\n<p>For years, the Mexico government theorized that the \u201cstudents\u2019 bodies had been burned in a trash dump on the outskirts of Iguala,\u201d The Daily Beast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/we-finally-know-how-43-ayotzinapa-students-on-a-bus-vanished-into-thin-air\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>New evidence, however, suggests the police conspired with a drug cartel to kill the students. The new evidence includes text messages between a deputy police chief and a crime boss coordinating the kidnapping and murder at least 38 of the 43 student teachers. Apparently, the busses the students took over \u201cwere part of a drug-running operation that would carry a huge cargo of heroin across the U.S. border\u2014and the students had accidentally stolen the load,\u201d the Beast reported. From the Beast:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"25\">\n<p><em>Gildardo L\u00f3pez Astudillo was the local leader of the Guerreros Unidos cartel at that time. He was in charge of the area around the town of Iguala, in southwestern Mexico, where the students were last seen. Francisco Salgado Valladares was the deputy chief of the municipal police force in the town.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>On Sept. 26, 2014, Salgado texted L\u00f3pez to report that his officers had arrested two groups of students for having taken the busses. Salgado then wrote that 21 of the students were being held on a bus. L\u00f3pez responded by arranging a transfer point on a rural road near the town, saying he \u201chad beds to terrorize\u201d the students in, likely referencing his plans to torture and bury them in clandestine grave sites.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Police chief Salgado next wrote that he had 17 more students being held \u201cin the cave,\u201d to which L\u00f3pez replied that he \u201cwants them all.\u201d The two then made plans for their underlings to meet at a place called Wolf\u2019s Gap, and Salgado reminded L\u00f3pez to be sure to send enough men to handle the job.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Salgado texted L\u00f3pez later that night to say \u201call the packaged have been delivered,\u201d an apparent reference to the heroin inside the bus that had been stolen by the students.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Vigil, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration\u2019s former chief of international operations, told the Beast that the new evidence \u201cprovides irrefutable proof\u201d that the police and an organized crime syndicate worked together to murder the students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe story of the massacre of the students in Ayotzinapa is like a Hollywood movie, but the events are real. They involve collusion between the police, army, organized crime, and a massive coverup by the Mexican government,\u201d Virgil told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>The youngest student killed in the massacre was Jose Angel Navarrete, who was 18 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Salgado, the deputy police chief, was already arrested for the massacre, the Beast reported. L\u00f3pez, the former crime boss, was arrested but released for alleged due process failures, and is currently free.<\/p>\n<p>The text messages do not specifically mention the military, but many still believe the Mexican army was involved in executing some of the students. It was the military who intercepted the text messages but took seven years to release them. La Reforma, a Mexican newspaper, published <a href=\"https:\/\/mexiconewsdaily.com\/news\/leaked-testimony-links-military-with-disappearance-of-43-ayotzinapa-students\/\">leaked testimony<\/a> that suggested local army officers assisted the drug cartel in collecting the students and others on the night the students vanished.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe army hides information because it\u2019s in their best interest to do so,\u201d a high-ranking Mexican police commander told the Beast under the condition of anonymity. \u201cThe whole world knows that the army controls the drug trade [in that part of Mexico.]\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMexico continues to wonder why violence persists unabated. They don\u2019t understand that no consequence for criminal actions translates to more impunity,\u201d the commander added.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of September 2014, a group of 43 male students from the Rural Teachers College in Ayotzinapa, Mexico, commandeered several buses in order to travel to Mexico City &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}