One of the main suspects in the 2014 disappearance of 43 college students in Mexico has been acquitted, attorney says.
in southern Mexico has been acquitted, a human rights attorney said Tuesday, as justice remains elusive for one of the darkest moments of the country’s recent history.
López Astudillo has been identified as a purported member of the Guerreros Unidos organized crime group. Prosecutors during the government of then-President Enrique Peña Nieto alleged that he gave the order for the disappearances, mistaking them for members of a rival gang. The Mexican judicial system ruled in June 2018 that the investigation was not “swift, effective, independent or impartial” and ordered federal prosecutors to fix that.
More than 120 people were detained, many of them as presumed members of Guerreros Unidos, but only about half remain in custody. Aguirre said among those freed are six people accused of ordering the disappearances.
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