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A massacre in Mexico : the true story behind the missing forty-three students
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Verdadera noche de Iguala. English
Title
A massacre in Mexico : the true story behind the missing forty-three students / Anabel Hernández ; translated with an introduction by John Washington.
ISBN
9781788731485
1788731484
9781788731515
9781788731508
Publication
London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2018.
Copyright Notice Date
©2018
Physical Description
xxviii, 404 pages : map ; 25 cm
Notes
"First published as La verdadera noche de Iguala. La historia que el gobierno quiso ocultar, 2017 ©Vintage Espanol" -- title page verso.
Includes index.
Summary
"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.
Examines the disappearance and presumed murder of forty-three students in Iguala, Mexico, in 2014.
Other formats
Online version: Hernández, Anabel. Massacre in Mexico the true story behind the missing forty-three students. London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2018
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 10, 2018
Contents
Red dawn
The week before : the key days
Ayotzinapa
The first cover-up
The story of the Abarcas
Manufacturing guilty parties
The "historical falsehood"
The killing hours
The last breath
The dark hours
The true night of Iguala.
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