by Laura Carlsen, Foreign Policy, USA – Mexico is in crisis. In recent weeks, tens of thousands of furious protestors have taken to the streets of cities across the country.
The furor stems from the disappearance and all-but-certain killing of 43 male students of the Raul Isidro Burgos College in Ayotzinapa, at the hands of corrupt police allegedly working with a local drug cartel. The vicious crime and alleged grisly disposal of the students’ bodies has touched a nerve across a country sick of violence and corruption in daily life.
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