A massacre in Mexico : the true story behind the missing forty-three students / Anabel Hernández ; translated with an introduction by John Washington.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Publisher: London ; Brooklyn, New York : Verso, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: xxviii, 404 pages : map ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781788731485
- 1788731484
- 1788735366
- 9781788735360
- Verdadera noche de Iguala. English
- Kidnapping -- Mexico -- Iguala de la Independencia
- Mass murder -- Mexico -- Iguala de la Independencia
- State-sponsored terrorism -- Mexico -- Iguala de la Independencia
- College students -- Crimes against -- Mexico -- Iguala de la Independencia
- Serial murders -- Mexico -- Guerrero (State)
- Murder victims -- Mexico -- Guerrero (State)
- Iguala de la Independencia (Mexico) -- Politics and government -- 21st century
- Guerrero (Mexico : State) -- Politics and government -- 21st century
- HV6322.3.M6 H4713 2018
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The definitive account of the disappearance of forty-three Mexican students
On September 26, 2014, a party of students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College were en route to a protest when intercepted by local police. A confrontation ensued. Come the morning, the students were nowhere to be found. The crime that had transpired and the resultant cover-up brought the profound depths of corruption in the Mexican government and police force--as well as the vulnerability of ordinary Mexicans--into stark relief.
Investigative reporter Anabel Hernández reconstructs the terrible events of that night and its aftermath, giving us the most complete picture available. Her sources are unparalleled. In researching this book, she secured access to internal government documents that have not been made public and to surveillance footage the government has tried to hide and destroy. Hernández demolishes the Mexican state's official version of events, which the Peña Nieto government cynically dubbed the "historic truth." As her research shows, state officials at all levels, from police and prosecutors to the upper echelons of government, conspired to put together a fake case, concealing and manipulating evidence, and arresting and torturing dozens of "suspects," procuring forced confessions to back up the official lie. By following the role of the various Mexican state agencies through the events in such remarkable detail, A Massacre in Mexico shows with exacting precision precisely who is responsible for this monumental crime and who needs to be held accountable.
First published: Vintage Espano, 2017.
Includes index.
"The definitive account of the mass disappearance of 43 Mexican students and the government that tried to cover it up. On September 26, 2014, 43 male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College went missing in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. According to official reports, the students commandeered several buses to travel to Mexico City to commemorate the anniversary of the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre. During the journey, local police intercepted the students and a confrontation ensued. By the morning, they had disappeared without a trace. Hernández reconstructs almost minute-by-minute the events of those nights in late September 2014, giving us what is surely the most complete picture available: her sources are unparalleled, since she has secured access to internal government documents that have not been made public, and to video surveillance footage the government has tried to hide and destroy. Hernández demolishes the Mexican state's official version, which the Peña Nieto government cynically dubbed the "historic truth." State officials at all levels, from police and prosecutors to the upper echelons of the PRI administration, conspired to put together a fake case, concealing or manipulating evidence, and arresting and torturing dozens of "suspects" who then obliged with full "confessions" that matched the official lie. In the wake of the students' disappearances, protestors in Mexico took up the slogan "Fue el estado"--"It was the state." Hernández's book is the one that gives most precision and credibility to the claim: by following the role of the various Mexican state agencies through the events in such remarkable detail, she allows to see exactly which parts of the state are responsible for which component of this monumental crime"-- Provided by publisher.
Translated from the Spanish.