re: #62 ckkatz

Yes, that is very much a surprise. I wonder what happened that caused the entire local law enforcement establishment to end up under the bus. Let alone a former national cabinet minister. Trying to remember if the the two governments were from different parties.

Yes, Murillo is from the PRI and the current government under AMLO is Morena. The PRI put out a tweet (which, paraphrasing in English) was basically “this is a political arrest, this does nothing for the families.” I suspect the families are glad to finally have some sort of justice coming.

The arrest on Friday came hot on the heels of a meeting of the Truth and Access to Justice Commission on Thursday, which has been investigating the mass kidnapping and disappearance for a few years now. I read an article in Spanish in El País from yesterday, and the big news then was that for the first time in nearly eight years, someone who had an official government position stated that the 43 kidnapped students were dead. The incident was also described as a “crime of the State.”

Of course, this is not news north of the border. Unless I go looking for these sorts of things, I never hear about it.