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What happened to the 43 Ayotzinapa students?

New information contradicts Mexican government’s claims about what happened to students who disappeared in 2014

As the disappearance of 43 students from Iguala, Mexico nears the one year anniversary mark, several independent investigations, most recently from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, have cast doubt of the Mexican government's version of the events: that municipal police handed the students over to a local drug trafficking gang, which later burned the students in a nearby garbage dump.

Several international organizations, meanwhile, have criticized the government of Enrique Peña Nieto for its handling of the investigation, and they demand that it reopen the case. AJ+ visited Iguala to attempt to break down what happened on the night of September 26, 2014, in what has been called one of the worst human rights violations in modern Mexican history.

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