A top cartel boss linked to the 2014 disappearance of 43 Mexican student teachers was nabbed when Mexican feds and elements of the military conducted an armed raid Monday.
Nicolas Najera Salgado, 51, was in charge of the Guerreros Unidos Cartel‘s operations for the Mexican city of Iguala after the 2015 capture of another cartel boss. Najera is said to be tied to drug trafficking in the U.S. by various Mexican authorities including the Attorney General’s Office and the Commission of National Security.
The capture of Najera follows a prolonged Sunday gun battle in Acapulco. The two hour confrontation in the Mexican resort town came on the heels of the arrest mere hours earlier of major regional cartel boss linked to what remains of the Beltran Leyva Organization.
Mexico is currently reeling from the conclusions reached by an independent investigation that released its findings Monday regarding the September 2014 disappearance of 43 student teachers. Investigators concluded that municipal police officers led the forcible disappearance of the students. Seventy-three cops have been arrested for their role in the mass disappearance.
The independent investigators have asked the Mexican government to follow through with their recommendations of how to go about investigating the mass disappearance. The investigators were five Latin American human rights experts and lawyers from outside Mexico.
Besides the 43 students who disappeared that night, others were known to have been killed in cold blood. One student was found with “his facial skin and muscles … torn away from his head, his skull was fractured in several places, and his internal organs … ruptured” according to The New York Times.
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