On 26 September 2014 , 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers ' College in Ayotzinapa were kidnapped , disappeared , and likely murdered , provoking ongoing national protests and international attention . Mexican Federal Police and Iguala 's police department and former mayor have been implicated in the students ' kidnapping and disappearance ; members of the '' Guerreros Unidos '' drug cartel in the mass murder . The governor of Guerrero state , Ángel Aguirre Rivero , resigned amid the scandal
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2014 Iguala mass kidnapping
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