On September 26 2014 43 male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College went
missing in Iguala Guerrero Mexico. On route to a protest 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. As her research shows 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. By following
the role of the various Mexican state agencies through the events in such remarkable detail
Massacre in Mexico shows with exacting precision who is responsible for which component of this
monumental crime.
