Cartel member held over 43 student deaths

A suspected high-ranking drug cartel member implicated in last year’s disappearance of 43 college students in the Mexican state of Guerrero has been captured.

National Security Commissioner Renato Sales confirmed the detention of Gildardo Lopez Astudillo, 36, calling him the “intellectual author” of the students’ disappearance.

He was arrested in the city of Taxco and is suspected of involvement in drug distribution, extortion and organised crime.