On 26 September 2014 , a group of male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers ' College commandeered two local buses which they drove to nearby Iguala , where they took another three . Their plan was to travel to Mexico City to participate in protests commemorating the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre , after which they would return the buses . In one account of following events , local police attacked the students , killing some , and then apprehended the survivors , turning them over to the Guerreros Unidos , a local criminal drug trafficking organization . The Guerreros Unidos then killed the surviving students and burned their bodies , disposing of the remains
Tlatelolco massacre
Tlatelolco massacre
Sergio González Rodríguez