UpFront PM

UpFront PM – August 29, 2022

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Law & Disorder

Arrests on 43 missing students from Ayotzinapa, Mexico; Plus, inedible food in Virginia women’s prison

On September 26, 2014, students from a rural teachers college in Ayotzinapa, a town in the Mexican state of Guerrero, were disappeared by state actors and police. Forty-three students completely vanished, igniting years of national protest. Now, the country’s former Attorney General – long thought complicit in the coverup – has been arrested, reopening wounds … Continued