article_snippet: Whatever the truth of the matter, there is no doubt that the scandal, coming hot on the heels of the disappearance of 43 student teachers, was a disaster for the Peña Nieto regime.
article_snippet: Considered handsome but dim by most voters during the 2012 presidential campaign, tough economic reforms sent Peña Nieto popularity ratings tumbling, while the furore over the students could prove terminal.
article_snippet: Peña Nieto, who had come to power pledging to end the bloody rule of the drug cartels, mishandled the situation, say critics, when in September last year, 43 students were kidnapped in Iguala.
article_snippet: While the precise details of what happened remain unclear, what is known is that the men were handed over to the Guerreros Unidos crime syndicate and, according to the Mexican government, murdered and the men bodies burned.
article_snippet: The crime immediately sparked nationwide protests which intensified when Iguala's mayor, José Luis Abarca Velázquez, and José Luis wife María de los Ángeles Pineda Villa, were accused of masterminding the massacre.
article_snippet: Worse still, a number of police officers were also implicated - putting paid, in the process, to Peña Nieto's claims that Peña Nieto's anti-cartel war was being won.
article_snippet: And the controversy is still not over - even as the embattled Peña Nieto's and Ms Rivera flew into London on Monday, critics were questioning whether the visit should go ahead.
article_snippet: David Cameron, who will meet Peña Nieto's at Downing Street today, has also said that Peña Nieto's plans to raise the issue of human rights abuses with the Mexican President.
article_snippet: But with scandal after scandal hitting the Peña Nieto regime, it seems the days of starring in soap operas aren't quite over yet.
highlights_snippet: Comes shortly after Mexican regime was criticised over student kidnap .
  
highlights_snippet: The kidnap and murder of 43 students by a cartel sparked global protests .