Photo Gallery Mexico's Killing Fields
Mexico has seen so much violence in recent years that drug-related killings and blood-letting hardly makes it onto the front pages any more. But the kidnapping and apparent murder of 43 student-teachers southwest of Mexico City has triggered protests across the country.
Some of the protests have turned violent. This image shows protesters running from riot police after some threw rocks and a firebomb during a demonstration in Acapulco.
A member of the community police force of Tianquizolco standing next to a federal police vehicle. Guns are everywhere in Mexico, but it is unclear who is in control.
The public has reacted strongly to the case. On the day after the attorney general told the media that he thought the 43 had been killed by a local drug cartel, demonstrators in Mexico City sought to storm the National Palace. In Chilpancingo, the capital of the state of Guerrero, protestors last week set fire to the regional headquarters of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
Iguala Mayor José Luis Abarca is suspected of having ordered the students' deaths. He is also thought to have close ties to the local crime syndicate. He and his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda, divided up control of the city among themselves and their families. Pineda planned to succeed her husband as mayor of Iguala. The two have since been taken into custody.
