Going to trial: Judge orders prosecution of former governor for the disappearance of 43 students
· Telemundo McAllen (KTLM)
MEXICO CITY — A Mexican judge ordered on Wednesday the prosecution of former Guerrero state governor Ángel Aguirre, who is detained, for his alleged involvement in the forced disappearance of individuals related to the case of the 43 students from the Ayotzinapa rural teachers' college, who went missing in September 2014. This decision comes six days after Aguirre's arrest, which shook the Mexican political landscape and refocused attention on the case, the most emblematic of the disappearance crisis that has plagued Mexico for decades. To date, more than 134,000 people are missing. The former governor, one of the highest-ranking officials arrested in connection with the case, was linked to the prosecution early Wednesday under the hypothesis that he concealed information of 'high relevance' to the investigations, according to a statement from the Mexican Attorney General's Office, led by Ernestina Godoy. The judge confirmed the preventive detention of the 70-year-old former governor, who will remain incarcerated in the maximum-security federal prison of Altiplano, in the State of Mexico. Aguirre governed Guerrero from 2011 until October 2014, one month after the crime occurred in the city of Iguala between September 26 and 27. Nearly twelve years after the incident, neither the motive for the crime nor the fate of the students is clear, although charred remains of three of the young men were found, and it is presumed that all were murdered by members of a local cartel trafficking heroin, who acted in collusion with security forces and local, state, and federal authorities, including the military. According to the Mexican attorney general's office, the former governor allegedly participated in concealing videos that may have recorded the events.
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