Drug cartel figure held over disappearance of 43 Mexican students

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.

Drug cartel figure held over disappearance of 43 Mexican students

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.

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