‘Missing 43’ case reopens old wounds in neighboring town

As thousands across Mexico protest the disappearance of 43 students from the town of Iguala, a small town nearby is also searching for their own missing group of youths – 17 young people, who disappeared in the wee hours of July 1, 2013. In the village of Cocula that night more than a year before the current crisis, gunmen stormed homes and took hostages. They have never been seen since then – and one family has been brave enough to file an official complaint. But so far, there’s no progress.

Read Agence France-Presse’s story of the family of missing boy Victor Varela, one of those kidnapped in Cocula a year ago, on Rappler.

More stories about the missing 43 students in Rappler’s World section.