{"id":6778,"date":"2025-05-15T14:22:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T14:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/05\/15\/retired-judge-arrested-in-connection-with-disappearance-and-presumed-murders-of-43-students-in-mexico\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T14:22:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T14:22:37","slug":"retired-judge-arrested-in-connection-with-disappearance-and-presumed-murders-of-43-students-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/05\/15\/retired-judge-arrested-in-connection-with-disappearance-and-presumed-murders-of-43-students-in-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired judge arrested in connection with disappearance and presumed murders of 43 students in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mexican authorities on Wednesday arrested a former senior judge in connection with the disappearance and presumed murders of 43 students<\/a><\/span> a decade ago.<\/p>\n

Lambertina Galeana, who faces charges of forced disappearance, is accused of helping to conceal videos that allegedly showed the incident unfolding, a government statement said.<\/p>\n

Security camera videos allegedly captured the moment the students were kidnapped by armed men right in front of a judicial building, El Pais reported<\/a>. In 2022, a commission concluded that Galeana ordered the videos destroyed because the images “were not clear due to technical problems,” the outlet reported.<\/p>\n

The case, one of the violence-plagued country’s worst human rights atrocities, has become emblematic of a missing persons crisis that has seen more than 120,000 people disappear.<\/p>\n

Galeana, now retired, was president of the Superior Court of Justice in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, where the students from a rural teacher training college disappeared in September 2014<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

So far, the remains of only three of the missing students have been found and identified, and relatives denounce impunity.<\/p>\n

The students from the Ayotzinapa school \u2014 whose members have a history of political activism \u2014 had commandeered buses to travel to a demonstration in Mexico City when they went missing.<\/p>\n

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Relatives and sympathizers of 43 missing Ayotzinapa university students march with a banner displaying the portraits and names of the students, on the ninth anniversary of their disappearance, in Mexico City, Sept. 26, 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Marco Ugarte \/ AP<\/p>\n

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Investigators believe they were abducted by a drug cartel with the help of corrupt police, although exactly what happened is unclear.<\/p>\n

In 2022, a truth commission set up by former President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador’s government branded the case a “state crime” and said the military shared responsibility, either directly or through negligence.<\/p>\n

That same year, federal agents arrested\u00a0former Attorney General Jes\u00fas Murillo Karam<\/a><\/span>, who oversaw the original investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The commission found that the army was aware of what was happening and had real-time information about the kidnapping and disappearance.<\/p>\n

One theory the commission put forward was that cartel members targeted the students because they had unknowingly taken a bus with drugs hidden inside.<\/p>\n

The incident drew international condemnation and shocked a nation where criminal violence, much of it linked to drug trafficking, has claimed around 480,000 lives since 2006.<\/p>\n

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