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The Resource A massacre in Mexico : the true story behind the missing forty-three students, Anabel Hernández ; translated with an introduction by John Washington

A massacre in Mexico : the true story behind the missing forty-three students, Anabel Hernández ; translated with an introduction by John Washington

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  • Examines the disappearance and presumed murder of forty-three students in Iguala, Mexico, in 2014
  • "The definitive account of the mass disappearance of 43 Mexican students and the government that tried to cover it up. On September 26, 2014, 43 male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College went missing in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. According to official reports, the students commandeered several buses to travel to Mexico City to commemorate the anniversary of the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre. During the journey, 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." 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. In the wake of the students' disappearances, protestors in Mexico took up the slogan "Fue el estado"--"It was the state." Hernández's book is the one that gives most precision and credibility to the claim: by following the role of the various Mexican state agencies through the events in such remarkable detail, she allows to see exactly which parts of the state are responsible for which component of this monumental crime"--
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  • eng
  • spa
  • eng
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xxviii, 404 pages
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  • "First published as La verdadera noche de Iguala. La historia que el gobierno quiso ocultar, 2017 © Vintage Espano 2017"--Title page verso
  • Includes index
Contents
  • Introduction / by John Washington
  • Preface
  • Red dawn
  • The week before : the key days
  • Ayotzinapa
  • The first cover-up
  • The story of the Abarcas
  • Manufacturing guilty parties
  • The "historical falsehood"
  • In Mexico's dungeons
  • The killing hours
  • The last breath
  • The dark hours
  • The true night of Iguala
  • Epilogue
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9781788731485
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A massacre in Mexico : the true story behind the missing forty-three students
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A massacre in Mexico
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the true story behind the missing forty-three students
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Anabel Hernández ; translated with an introduction by John Washington
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  • eng
  • spa
  • eng
Summary
  • Examines the disappearance and presumed murder of forty-three students in Iguala, Mexico, in 2014
  • "The definitive account of the mass disappearance of 43 Mexican students and the government that tried to cover it up. On September 26, 2014, 43 male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College went missing in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. According to official reports, the students commandeered several buses to travel to Mexico City to commemorate the anniversary of the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre. During the journey, 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." 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. In the wake of the students' disappearances, protestors in Mexico took up the slogan "Fue el estado"--"It was the state." Hernández's book is the one that gives most precision and credibility to the claim: by following the role of the various Mexican state agencies through the events in such remarkable detail, she allows to see exactly which parts of the state are responsible for which component of this monumental crime"--
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Hernández, Anabel
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364.13230972
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index present
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Translated from the Spanish
LC call number
HV6322.3.M6
LC item number
H4713 2018
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non fiction
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Washington, John
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  • Escuela Normal Rural de Ayotzinapa
  • Escuela Normal Rural de Ayotzinapa
  • Kidnapping
  • Mass murder
  • State-sponsored terrorism
  • Political persecution
  • College students
  • Serial murders
  • Missing persons
  • Murder victims
  • Political corruption
  • Rural schools
  • Crime
  • Disappeared persons
  • Violence
  • Students
  • Victims of state-sponsored terrorism
  • Disappeared persons
  • Violence
  • Kidnapping
  • Students
  • Students
  • College students
  • Crime
  • Disappeared persons
  • Kidnapping
  • Mass murder
  • Missing persons
  • Murder victims
  • Political corruption
  • Political persecution
  • Politics and government
  • Rural schools
  • Serial murders
  • State-sponsored terrorism
  • Students
  • Victims of state-sponsored terrorism
  • Violence
  • Guerrero (Mexico : State)
  • Iguala de la Independencia (Mexico)
  • Mexico
  • Iguala de la Independencia (Mexico)
  • Guerrero (Mexico : State)
  • Mexico
  • Mexico
  • Mexico
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A massacre in Mexico : the true story behind the missing forty-three students, Anabel Hernández ; translated with an introduction by John Washington
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Note
  • "First published as La verdadera noche de Iguala. La historia que el gobierno quiso ocultar, 2017 © Vintage Espano 2017"--Title page verso
  • Includes index
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Contents
Introduction / by John Washington -- Preface -- Red dawn -- The week before : the key days -- Ayotzinapa -- The first cover-up -- The story of the Abarcas -- Manufacturing guilty parties -- The "historical falsehood" -- In Mexico's dungeons -- The killing hours -- The last breath -- The dark hours -- The true night of Iguala -- Epilogue
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
xxviii, 404 pages
Isbn
9781788731485
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2018016253
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  • n
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40028606910
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  • (OCoLC)1044778475
  • (OCoLC)on1044778475
Label
A massacre in Mexico : the true story behind the missing forty-three students, Anabel Hernández ; translated with an introduction by John Washington
Publication
Copyright
Note
  • "First published as La verdadera noche de Iguala. La historia que el gobierno quiso ocultar, 2017 © Vintage Espano 2017"--Title page verso
  • Includes index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction / by John Washington -- Preface -- Red dawn -- The week before : the key days -- Ayotzinapa -- The first cover-up -- The story of the Abarcas -- Manufacturing guilty parties -- The "historical falsehood" -- In Mexico's dungeons -- The killing hours -- The last breath -- The dark hours -- The true night of Iguala -- Epilogue
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
xxviii, 404 pages
Isbn
9781788731485
Lccn
2018016253
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
40028606910
Other physical details
map
System control number
  • (OCoLC)1044778475
  • (OCoLC)on1044778475

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