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Mexico makes investigation of missing students public
C. SHERMAN People shout in support of the relatives of 43 disappeared rural order by Mexico’s National months reviewing the gov-
Associated Press college students from Guerrero state during a march in Mexico Transparency Institute. ernment’s investigation
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mex- City. The disappearance of the and found many flaws. It
ico’s attorney general on 43 students from a rural concluded that the gov-
Sunday followed through (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) teachers’ college on Sept. ernment’s story that the
on a pledge to make pub- 26, 2014, has roiled the students were incinerated
lic her office’s investigative names and other details Making all 85 volumes plus government of President beyond identification at a
file for the disappearance Enrique Pena Nieto ever garbage dump was physi-
of 43 students, releasing 85 are blacked out in the pub- appendices available on- since. The students’ fami- cally impossible and said
volumes of material. lies have refused to accept the official reports ap-
Attorney General Arely the government’s version peared to downplay the
Gomez Gonzalez used her that local police in the city presence of federal police
official Twitter account to of Iguala detained the stu- and troops near the areas
give a link to the file on the dents and turned them where the students were
agency’s website. Mexi- over to a drug cartel that seized.
co’s top prosecutor earlier killed them and incinerat- The experts found that the
had allowed reporters to ed their bodies. army monitored the situa-
review the approximately An international panel of tion closely, but the army
54,000 pages in their of- experts sent by the Inter- has refused to allow inter-
fices during recent weeks, American Commission on national investigators to in-
but only with a pad of Human Rights spent six terview its soldiers.q
paper and a pen. Some
lic version. line appears to meet an
Police: Jamaican guns-for-drugs
smuggling suspect killed in Haiti
DAVID McFADDEN lice identified the south-
Associated Press ern Haitian island of Ile-
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) a-Vache as “the central
— A major Jamaican sus- point from which the illicit
pect in a guns-for-drugs guns-for-drugs trade op-
smuggling network has erates between Jamaica
been fatally shot by law and Haiti.” Over the last
enforcement in southern few years, the Haitian gov-
Haiti, a Jamaican police ernment has been trying to
commander said Sunday. transform the small outlying
Deputy Police Commis- island into a high-end tour-
sioner Glenmore Hinds said ist resort.
the underworld figure was The smuggling network be-
gunned down Friday dur- tween criminals in Haiti and
ing a confrontation with Jamaica, often referred
Haitian officers. Jamaican to as the “guns-for-ganja”
investigators say the fugi- trade, has flourished for
tive, identified only by his years and stoked Jamai-
alias of “Mention,” had ca’s chronically high ho-
been based in that island’s micide rate. Jamaican in-
fishing town of Old Harbor vestigators say many of the
before fleeing to Haiti. illegal guns are manufac-
Haitian national police tured in the U.S. and start
spokesman Gary Desro- their illegal journeys from
siers said Sunday he did not Florida. Besides getting
have specifics from col- concealed in cargo ship
leagues. Reports from sta- containers, Jamaicans on
tions in rural Haiti can take fishing boats have long re-
time to reach police head- ceived pistols and subma-
quarters in Port-au-Prince. chine guns in exchange for
Last month, Jamaican po- homegrown marijuana.q
