Mexico authorities ‘knew about attack on students as it happened’

Jo Tuckman in Mexico City
The Guardian, Tuesday 16 December 2014

Mexican federal authorities had real-time information of an attack on a group of student teachers by corrupt local police, but did nothing to stop the disappearance and probable massacre of 43 people, according to new evidence published by the news magazine Proceso.

Based on leaked government documents, the new allegations are likely to further fuel public anger at the government of the president, Enrique Peña Nieto, which has insisted that federal authorities share no responsibility for the students’ disappearance.

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The Proceso investigation is based on documents from an initial state-level investigation which was curtailed when federal authorities took over in early October. The Guardian has not been able to verify the magazine’s account.

The documents include a detailed record of the student’s movements made by a government information command post – known as a C4 – as the group left their college in Ayotzinapa in the town of Tixtla.

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