Mexico's monthly murder rate reaches 20-year high

[Judi Lynn]

3. Every reason in the world to remember Guerrero State if you recall the 43 teaching students

who were kidnapped and brutally murdered. This article will refresh your memory:

AP November 4, 2014, 10:30 AM
Mexico mayor, wife detained in case of 43 missing students

MEXICO CITY -- Federal police early Tuesday detained the former mayor of the southern Mexican city of Iguala and his wife, who are accused of ordering the Sept. 26 attacks on teachers' college students that left six dead and 43 still missing.

Jose Luis Abarca and his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda, were arrested in Mexico City, the Federal Police announced in a Twitter post.

The couple was in the custody of the Attorney General's Office, where they were giving statements. At least 56 other people have been arrested so far in the case, and the Iguala police chief is still a fugitive.

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The students from a rural teachers college had gone to Iguala to canvass for donations and authorities say Abarca ordered the attack on them, believing the students were aiming to disrupt a speech by Pineda. They say the assault was carried out by police working with the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel. Authorities say Pineda was a main operative in the cartel.

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