"Ayotzinapa. Desaparición Política" (ed. Bilingüe)

The victims of the forced disappearances and extrajudicial executions during Ángel Aguirre’s government are many.

During his administration the relation between murders and the number of detained-disappeared is enormous.

Among the victims: the ecologists Eva Alarcón Ortiz and Marcial Bautista Valle; rural teachers Jorge Alexis Herrera and Gabriel Echeverría; the leaders of the Emiliano Zapata Revolutionary Agrarian League of the South, Raymundo Velázquez and Samuel Vargas; environmentalist Juventina Villa and her son Reynaldo Santana; the trustee of Iguala, Justino Carbajal; Popular Union members, Arturo Hernández, Rafael Banderas and Angel Román; Rocío Mesino, who was in charge of the Rural Organization of Sierra of the South; rural workers of the land (campesinos), Juan Lucena and José Luis Sotelo, promoters of self-defense in Atoyac; and campesino organizers José Luis Olivares and Ana Lilia Gatica Rómulo.

Narco-politics is not an exclusive issue of the old PRI. People from various factions of the PRD have been identified as part of it. Many times the member of the New Left Party and president of the state Congress, Bernardo Ortega, has been identified as head of the criminal group Los Ardillos. His father was jailed for the murder of two agents of special police of investigation (AFI) and he was executed as soon he was freed.

Servando Gómez, La Tuta, revealed in a video that Crescencio Reyes Torres, Carlos’s brother, leader of the Aztec Sun in the region, and part of the group Grupo Guerrero, ruled by David Jímenez, is one of the main owners of the laboratories used for making synthetic drugs, and is also an ally of the criminal group Jalisco Nueva Generación.

The governor Aguirre has been repeatedly associated with the criminal group Independiente de Acapulco. It is rumored that its leader, Víctor Aguirre, is the governor’s cousin. Obviously, 32