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Mexico's Macabre show: Texts show how a drug gang, with police help, killed 43 students
Text messages reveal how a drug gang aided by the state machinery, was able to execute the killing of 43 students in Mexico.
A stunning new revelation shows how the state machinery played a crucial role in the murder of 43 students in Mexico. About 23,000 messages were obtained by the New York Times that point to how the state was an accomplice in the crime committed by an infamous drug cartel in the Mexican city, of Iguala.
Omar Gomez Trejo, a prosecutor who went against the military to find evidence of their involvement in the case, said the evidence is "very robust, strong and unquestionable." He got access to the wiretaps last year and realised how they acutely solved the case.
One cartel member asked a local mayor who worked for him, "Do you want me to get your w**** of a city councilor in line, or should we put him down?"
“What, you don’t think blondie has the soldiers in the bag?” one cartel member wrote, referring to a fellow gang member, say investigators.
The officers who snatched the students that night in 2014, had been taking direct orders from the cartel. One of them supplied them with guns, while others hunted down their rivals as they commanded.
Additionally, the military who closely monitored the abduction and killing never came to the student's rescue and rather received bribes from the abductors.
It has been known that police officials and government officials either helped the cartel in the abduction or did not try to stop them from committing the crime.
However, with the discovery of the wiretaps, the curtains over the motive of collusion between the two have been removed.
An observance of the thousands of text messages from the cartel known as Guerreros Unidos, reveals that the public officials had become their loyal paid employees.
One of the responders who rushed to the the scene of abduction had a second job- gathering intelligence for the cartel. A coroner was also their partner in crime, as he sent photos of corpses and evidence at the crime scene along with helping the traffickers bury the incinerated bodies in a crematory owned by his family.
Why did the cartel kill the group of 43?
The group of 43 students who were training to become teachers at the Ayotzinapa Rural Teacher's College had nothing to do with the crime. The innocent victims were killed due to confusion.
As they left the bus station, the police chased them down and hauled them away. They were later turned over to the cartel group who killed them and disposed off their bodies.
The gang had been facing a lot of difficulties in ruling their territories with rival gangs trying to push in. So when dozens of young men entered the city of Iguala in passenger buses, they were thought to be enemies and therefore, killed, say the prosecutors.
The army had been privy to all this information through the Israel-manufactured spy tool, Pegasus, which has now become clear through the interception of the unpublished messages.
While earlier no action had been taken for the suddenly vanished students. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has ordered the arrest of 20 Mexican soldiers who were connected with the kidnapping.
