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                 Thousands Protest for Missing Mexico Students

   by Reuters

   Tens of thousands marched in Mexico City on Wednesday to demand answers
   about the fate of 43 missing trainee teachers, who authorities fear
   were massacred by police in league with gang members.

   The students went missing in the town of Iguala in the south-western
   state of Guerrero on September 26 after clashing with police and masked
   men, with dozens of police being arrested in connection with a case
   that has sent shockwaves across Mexico.

   Authorities say many of the missing students were abducted by police.

   Despite the discovery of mass graves near Iguala and the arrest of
   dozens in connection with the disappearance, authorities are still
   trying to find the bodies of the students.

   Justice for the students

   Protester Miriam Perez told Reuters that alive or dead, the students
   must be found.

   "That there be justice for them (students) and that they (authorities)
   give more opportunities to young people in universities. And that the
   bodies be found, whatever the way. If they're aren't alive then at
   least find them so they (family) can mourn their youth," Perez said.

   The violence is overshadowing President Enrique Pena Nieto's efforts to
   focus public attention on sweeping economic reforms aimed at boosting
   economic growth in Latin America's No. 2 economy.

   But the wave of violence in Guerrero that followed the disappearance
   and allegations of collusion between police, authorities and drug gangs
   has fuelled widespread mistrust of the government.

   "To say to authorities that we have no government, that we don't have
   faith in them and so civil society needs to organize itself in
   different ways, in the many ways that we have as a society to make it
   clear that we have no government, we don't have one," said protester,
   Jorge Antonio Aguilar.

   Pena Nieto took office two years ago pledging to end a wave of violence
   that has claimed about 100,000 victims since the start of 2007.
   Although homicides have diminished on his watch, other crimes such as
   extortion and kidnapping have increased.
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