43 Missing Students Of Ayotzinapa: FBI Involved In Ongoing Investigation Per Mexican Government Request

It seems like part of Mexico’s government’s strategy to diffuse the situation around the 43 missing students of Ayotzinapa case, was to “wait it out.” Enrique Peña Nieto even stated they were “not going to take any dramatic action” after the tragic events occurred on this past September 26 in Iguala, Guerrero. After three months of waiting for answers on the alleged disappearance, (despite being declared dead by Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam), NBC News reports that the FBI has been involved in the ongoing investigation of the case, especially by performing DNA testing per the country’s government’s request, as they have only been able to identify one student (Alexander Mora venancio) in the numerous mass graves that have been discovered.

Sergio Alcocer, undersecretary of foreign affairs for North American, said the aid to the Mexican governement was provided through the Merida Initiative, a counter-drug and anti-crime program established in 2008 by the US, which has already appropriated around $2.4 billion by assisting Mexico.

In addition, several journalists and students have been on the case and have discovered (or better said, confirmed) the local authorities and federal police were directly involved in the disappearance of the 43 student teachers: “Nothing that happened that night was an accident. The government knew exactly what was happening,” said Anabel Hernández, a journalism student in the University of California, who also discovered official documents, which have not been revealed to the public, since they implicate the federal police directly in the events occurred that night. These revelations were also published in a report by Proceso magazine.