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Judi Lynn

(160,543 posts) Mon Feb 22, 2016, 05:09 AM Feb 2016

Mexico's missing students: international investigators say they are being obstructed

Mexico's missing students: international investigators say they are being obstructed

Experts claim the government is limiting their access to new information, including videos, about the 43 teaching students who disappeared in 2014

Associated Press
Sunday 21 February 2016 23.51 EST Last modified on Sunday 21 February 2016 23.53 EST

International experts for the Inter-American Human Rights Commission have said they have run into serious obstacles in their investigation of the case of 43 college students who went missing after being detained by police in southern Mexico in 2014.

Members of the panel said at a news conference on Sunday they were concerned about being given limited access to new information uncovered by government investigators and criticised leaks of statements from some of those arrested in the case that the panel said “don’t correspond to the truth”.

They also said authorities had not allowed them be present for statements by military personnel who were witnesses to the disappearance or had been given access to videos that could clarify what happened that night.

In response to the complaints, the federal attorney general’s office issued a statement reaffirming its willingness to work with the panel and said it already was investigating the leaks. It denied officials fragmented findings from the government’s investigation, which it said remained open.

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/22/mexicos-missing-students-international-investigators-say-they-are-being-obstructed

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I have read a theory that the students unwittingly stole a bus smuggling heroin. DetlefK Feb 2016 #1

DetlefK

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1. I have read a theory that the students unwittingly stole a bus smuggling heroin.

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Mon Feb 22, 2016, 07:30 AM

Feb 2016

http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/mexiko-die-wahrheit-ueber-die-vermissten-studenten-soll-nicht-ans-licht-a-1078586.html
(article in german)

The federal attornies are preventing the GIEI from questioning the soldiers that were stationed nearby.

And the bus the students used? There were 5 buses. The students had stolen that fifth bus. The existence of that bus was deleted from official reports.
Why?
What could possibly be interesting about a long-distance bus travelling from Iguala to Chicago?
Why could someone possibly have an interest in not talking about that particular bus?

The article above tells of a theory that the students stole a bus that was used to smuggle heroin. And when somebody stole their drugs, the narcos and corrupt cops panicked. Killing the students was just the cover-up for an operation to get their heroin back.

The GIEI asked Chicago for aid and additional information about this kind of drug-smuggling.
It took the mexican federal attornies two months to pass the letter on to the US.

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