Lessons of Mexican Students' Disappearance

The disappearance of the forty-three students revealed the brutal reality of the Mexican state, which is rife with disappearances, murder, corruption, impunity, and the systematic use of torture by law enforcement agencies to lock up innocent people and protect the guilty.

Anabel Hernández, A Massacre in Mexico: The True Story Behind the Missing Forty-Three Students (John Washington trans.) (London: Verso, 2018), p. 243