That will teach them to rain on this lady's parade

[Kiamichi]

For several weeks now the Mexican federal government has been looking for 43 students of education that were detained by municipal police in Iguala, Guerrero and turned over to a cartel called United Warriors. Six other students were shot to death at the scene. Of the thirty bodies the authorities have found so far none appears to be of a missing student. The mayor of Iguala and his wife and the local police chief have fled and are being sought. There has been all sorts of speculation about the motive for this crime. Now police are reporting that according to statements from those under arrest it was all to keep the students from demonstrating and spoiling a speech she was to deliver on the activities of the local Department for Family Development, which she headed.

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The instigators behind the murder of six people, injuries to 25 others and the disappearance of 43 students of education from Ayotzinapa were José Luis Abarca Velázquez, the mayor of Iguala, Guerrero and his wife María de los Ángeles Pineda Villa.

This is the conclusion the Federal Attorney General's office has arrived at after its investigation that was begun eighteen days ago. It established that the motive was to violently dissuade the students from tarnishing the festivities surrounding Pineda Villa's activities report.

Jesús Murillo, the Federal Attorney General, explained how the acts were carried out and gave details on the participation by police from Iguala and Cocula, as well as their collusion with United Warriors. The investigation includes the testimony of 52 people in custody, among them the United Warriors' leader Sidronio Casarrubias Salgado.

Murillo Karam emphasized the close ties that Mayor José Luis Abarca has had for years with organized crime figures, as well as Pineda Villa's kinship to the financial managers of what was formerly the Beltrán Leyva Cartel.

“Sidronio Casarrubias identified María de los Ángeles Pineda, wife of the mayor, as the main operator in the City Hall, along with her husband and Felipe Flores Velázquez, the police chief”, stated the Attorney General.

He reminded those present that upon the death of Arturo Beltrán Leyva in December of 2009, there were spinoffs from the cartel that he had led. In Guerrero several groups were formed, including United Warriors and Los Rojos, that are now fighting over territory for drug sales.

He added that the Warriors were able to weave a broad web of complicity. "Just in Iguala, they received between two and three million pesos from the mayor, of which 600 thousand were dedicated to controlling the police," he said.

As to the attack upon the students, he explained that the testimony is that it was ordered by Mayor Abarca Velázquez himself since there had been a prior act of violence by students of education in July of 2013.

“The persons in custody said that the order to confront the students was transmitted from police headquarters and it was said that it came from A5, the code used to identify the mayor of Iguala, José Luis Abarca”, he added.

It was then that Iguala police asked for help from police in Cocula, whose members including its chief César Nava were also in collusion with the United Warriors. The uniformed officers blocked the route of the students, who were traveling in four buses.

At an early moment a municipal policeman shot a student to death, which caused the rest of the students to flee. During the pursuit the officers met the bus of the football team Los Avispones, from Chilpancingo, which they attacked having confused it with students.

Minutes later the students were detained and carried to the Iguala police station and Cocula officers took them and turned them over to a United Warriors cell headed by a subject nicknamed "El Gil".

It was this individual that transported the students in a white truck with cattle racks along a dirt road in the vicinity of Pueblo Viejo.

Attorney General Murillo Karam related that El Gil advised Casarrubias Salgado of the events and said that the detained persons were of the opposing group. This caused the leader of the criminal gang to give the green light to continue and thus "protect the territory".

He said that thanks to the statements multiple graves have been located, nine of them with human remains totaling thirty bodies whose identities have not been established at the present time.

“Forensic examinations were made at the site of the graves, one by the Federal Attorney General's office and the other by the Federal Police, and these were compared to DNA samples delivered by the Guerrero State Attorney General's office. The results were negative.”

He explained that a third examination is being made by Argentinian forensic experts who took samples directly from relatives of the victims and he is awaiting their conclusion. "These results will be decisive in confirming the samples that were delivered to us."

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