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Mexico soldier standing next to confiscation of marijuana near the U.S. border. Drug cartels, like the on that took the 43 students, have long been a major issue for both Mexico and the U.S.

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Site of the Iguala mass kidnapping at night.

https://theintercept.com/2015/05/04/how-43-students-disappeared-in-mexico-part-1/

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Garbage dump that is allegedly the site the students’ bodies were burned.

https://theintercept.com/2015/05/04/mexico-ayotzinapa-43-students-disappeared-part-2/

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The city of Iguala where the 43 students were kidnaped from.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1206542

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Municipal police officers taken into custody for their alleged involvement. The local police were involved in helping the cartel take the 43 students.

https://theintercept.com/2015/05/04/mexico-ayotzinapa-43-students-disappeared-part-2/

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The mugshots of Mayor José Luis Abarca Velázquez and his wife María de los Ángeles Pineda Villa after their arrest in 2014.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2831163/The-bloody-rise-Mexico-s-Lady-murder-Beautiful-utterly-evil-mayor-s-wife-ordered-massacre-43-students-Boss-Bosses-cartel-TWO-killings-disappearances.html

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María de los Ángeles Pineda Villa and her husband Mayor José Luis Abarca Velázquez. They were responsible for handing over the 43 students to the cartel. 

https://revolucion.news/maria-de-los-angeles-pineda-villa-la-mandamas-en-iguala/

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/05/world/americas/mexico-43-missing-students-investigation.html

New York Times. Family members holding up pictures of their missing relatives at a protest in Mexico City in 2015.

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These are the 43 students that went missing 6 years ago, and still have not been found.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/20/mexico-43-killed-students-