Mexico’s Outrage over Los 43
After the Mass Disappearance of Students in Guerrero, Mexicans Are Refusing to Accept Violence as Usual
Forty three students from a small rural teachers’ college in Mexico’s mountainous southern backwater have jolted this nation out of its decade-long immunity to a proper outrage to mass violence, and threatened to hijack President Enrique Peña Nieto’s triumphant narrative that Mexico was back on track, destined for First Worldliness. These poor students did this, tragically, by disappearing, at the hands of local security forces that seem to operate as a public-private partnership between government and organized crime.
By now you’ve probably heard the basic outlines of the story: On September …