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BBC News
15-05-2025
- BBC News
Mexican judge arrested over 2014 disappearance of 43 students
Police in Mexico have arrested a retired judge accused of tampering with evidence related to the disappearance of 43 students from Iguala more than a decade Galeana Marín was the president of the Superior Tribunal of Justice in the state of Guerrero when the trainee teachers went missing in 79-year-old is suspected of having given an order that led to the disappearance of CCTV footage which investigators said was key to the case. She was arrested in the city of Chilpancingo, three years after a warrant for her arrest had been issued. Families of 43 missing students in Mexico are still demanding justice The disappearance of the 43 students - who all attended the same teacher training college in the town of Ayotzinapa - has long haunted Mexico. More than a decade on, and despite several investigations, much is still unknown about what happened on the night of 26 September 2014. The remains of three of the students have been found, while the whereabouts of the 40 others remain a mystery, although they are widely presumed to have been killed. A 2022 report by a truth commission tasked by the Mexican government with investigating the case found that it was a state-sponsored crime involving federal and state to the commission report, local police worked members of a criminal group to forcibly disappear the students had gone to Iguala to commandeer buses to take them to an annual protest in Mexico City. The Mexican government said both the police and a local criminal group known as Guerreros Unidos (United Warriors) had been alerted to the students' Unidos suspected that the students seizing busses in Iguala had been infiltrated by members of a rival criminal gang, Los Rojos, the report alleged. Both the police and members of Guerreros Unidos then mounted several roadblocks in and around the city, it added. One of those roadblocks, manned by local, state and federal police was on the street outside the Palace of Justice. Two Palace of Justice employees told investigators that the palace's security cameras had captured what had happened at the roadblock. However, the footage was never handed over to the authorities and when officials attempted to retrieve it almost a year later, the footage had been "lost", investigators said in have since alleged that it Ms Galeana gave the order to have the footage destroyed or deleted. In an official statement, Mexico's security ministry said Ms Galeana would face charges of forced disappearance.
Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Thousands march over concern Panama bending to US government
PANAMA CITY (AP) — Thousands of Panamanians marched in the capital Tuesday in the largest protest yet against an agreement signed during last month's visit by U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth giving U.S. troops access to strategic air and naval facilities in the Central American nation. U.S. President Donald Trump thrust Panama into the spotlight even before winning election last November by suggesting that his country should consider retaking control of the Panama Canal and accusing Panama of ceding influence to China. Panama has vehemently rejected those comments but also tried to pacify the new administration, which has slapped tariffs on many trade partners. University students led Tuesday's protest accusing President José Raúl Mulino of sacrificing Panama's sovereignty with the deal. 'We feel like our president is acting against the wishes of many Panamanians and in very sensitive affairs,' 30-year-old student Tony Ruiz said. 'He signs an agreement behind our back that compromises our sovereignty, our neutrality with the world. The previous night Foreign Affairs Minister Javier Martínez-Acha said of the agreement with Washington: 'The memorandum of understanding does not imply a surrender of sovereignty, nor does it violate the national constitution, nor the neutrality treaty.' Bases where the U.S. will get access for military personnel and contractors will always remain under the control of Panama and it can terminate the agreement with six months notice, he said. Martínez-Acha said the U.S. government acted in bad faith in how it handled the sensitive issue in the media, an apparent reference to Trump's inflammatory comments on the canal, but nonetheless Panama was being 'prudent' and trying to avoid sanctions that have befallen other countries. 'International cooperation is necessary to strengthen our capabilities,' he said. 'Collaborating with the United States in this case helps us improve security without affecting our sovereignty or our laws.' The details of the deal only became public days after Hegseth's visit. In a separate agreement, Panama also agreed to look for a way for the U.S. government to be reimbursed for fees its naval ships pay to transit the Canal. The Trump administration has argued that it should not be obligated to defend the canal and pay to use it. The U.S. built the canal in the early 1900s as it looked for ways to facilitate the transit of commercial and military vessels between its coasts. Control of the waterway transferred to Panama in 1999 under a treaty signed in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter. The Trump administration has also pressured for the Hong Kong-based operator of ports at either end of the canalto sell those interests to a U.S. consortium that includes BlackRock Inc. While Martínez-Acha suggested that politically motivated opponents are stirring controversy, the student protesters expressed concern about a U.S. return to a country it invaded as recently as 1989. 'We are a neutral country; we cannot take sides with any country,' said Jam Allard, another student. 'We want our country to be sovereign.'
