The fireplace that cast a pall over the night of Matches

At that time he did not, but the agent he had snatched them from certain death. It was not by chance or piety, but out of pure and simple saturation. As Ernesto would recall weeks after, the municipal police had tens of companions of the Rural School Normal Ayotzinapa lie face down on the asphalt and were bringing in trucks to the police station. They were up to the stops. So busy they were, which had appealed for help to the agents of the neighboring town of Cocula, and when Ernesto, armed with value, approached to ask about the fate of their friends, no longer had time or space for one more. Directly after he heard the news, he pointed with the rifle and threatened him to leave. "Saw him leaving the avenue to my companions," he remembers. It was the last time that he knew of them.

Its landing had not gone unnoticed. The hawks of narco news, according to the reconstruction of the Mexican Attorney General, had followed his footsteps and become alerted to the center of the Municipal Police. Teacher trainees were not welcome. In June of the previous year, after the murder and torture of the peasant leader Arturo Hernandez Cardona, the students had blamed the crime to the mayor of Iguala, José Luis Covers Velázquez, and attacked the town hall.

She, as point police investigations, ran the finances of the cartel of warriors in the city. The link with the narco came from far away. She was the daughter of a former would operate by Arturo Beltran Leyva, the Chief of Chiefs, and their own brothers had established by order of this hood the embryo of a criminal organization with the objective of addressing the Los Zetas and Family Michoacana. When both were executed and thrown into a ditch of the road from Cuernavaca, she took the reins in Iguala, starring along with her husband a fulgurating social advancement that i wanted to complete now with his ultimate ambition: to be elected alderman in 2015. To do this, that September 26 had prepared a great act in the socket of the villa. It was the beginning of its electoral race.

The irruption in the city of teacher trainees, hooded, rebels, with the desire to protest, made them fear that they were to burst the speech. The mayor demanded his henchmen that would prevent at all costs, and according to some versions, that the surrender to United warriors. The order was obeyed blindly. The jaws of the horror were opened wide. Possibly never know how the barbarity reached such an extreme, but what the police inquiries have managed to get to the light is that the teacher training students, you probably don't know what was the nature of the municipal power in Iguala, were given treatment of hitmen, they were persecuted with the healthy with that kills rival cartels. In successive waves, the police attacked blood and fire to the students. Of nothing they were worth their desperate attempts to flee in buses taken by force. Two were shot dead, another was skinned alive, three persons outside the facts have lost their lives as a shot to be confused with teacher training. In hunting, scores of students were arrested and taken to the police command of Iguala. Nobody gave order to stop. The clock continued.

In just one night without moon, overcrowded like cattle in a truck and a van, teacher trainees were driven into the dustbin of Cocula. It was a journey to hell. Many students, possibly a fortnight, wounded and beaten, died of asphyxiation in this tour. Upon arriving in the area, the survivors were down one by one. With his hands on his head, forced them to walk a stretch, lie on the floor and answer your questions. They wanted to know why they had come to matches and whether they belonged to the cartel rival. The teacher trainees, according to the confessions of the detainees, they were terrified that they were students, and that had nothing to do with the narco. Soon they were served. Finishing the interrogation, they received a shot in the head. The core of the command executor, but was aided by more assassins, Patricio Reyes were Landa, the Duck; Jonathan Osorio Gomez, Jona, and Agustin Garcia Reyes, the Chereje. With bestiality methodical, killed all the teacher trainees and, to what was already dead, dragged, caught in the arms and legs, out of the vehicles.