Yes, Ayotzinapa/Iguala Massacre was a State Crime, but how deep runs the responsibility?

The wanton massacre of 6 and kidnapping of 43 young Mexican students of the rural teachers School of Ayotzinapa on September 26^th 2014, could be been foretold long enough to be averted if we look back to the late history of Mexico.

Throughout the past 2 years President Enrique Peña Nieto and right wing affiliates like “Mexicanos Primero” have advocated for a education Reform, which is strongly opposed by the left wing leaning teachers union: the CNTE. CNTE union convened massive rallies across the country and a sit-in in the center of Mexico: the Zocalo.

Media portrayed those teachers contending the Reform as lazy and bad teachers. The right leaning Government of the Estado de Mexico sent a bill to the local congress to jail all teachers taking part in public demonstrations and parades. The most visited online news site of Mexico “El Universal” posted on September 2013 a heading stating: “With full pockets the CNTE leaves Mexico City” hinting teacher's union just wanted money and after they got it they left. This was not true, until October 2013 teacher kept their sit-in in Mexico City, still awaiting for an answer from the Federal Government. Graco Ramirez Governor of the State of Morelos asked to have a “hard line” against teachers of the neighboring State of Guerrero. Business organizations requested a strong arm against teachers rallies. In Mexico as in any other Capitalist Latin American State the borders between economic and politic power are blurred

Early this year, when the think tank The Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO) issued a widely advertised bulletin claiming the average wage of Mexican teachers was 25 000 MXN a month and some of them earned more than the Mexican President or the President of the US. Mexican teachers rejected that was true, flawed data bases were used by the IMCO and lack of direct confirmation of the factuality of those data bases were exposed. Some officials in the Government disapproved IMCO's conclusions too, but the rebuttal was not hyped as much as the IMCO report.

Attacks on teachers had been physical too. In 2011, two students of the same rural teachers School of Ayotzinapa were killed by the State Police of Guerrero during a rally while asking for a meeting with the Governor. In 2013, three teachers were pelted with stones during a demonstration causing them serious head injuries. The attack was pinned on unknown residents of the Tepito neighborhood in Mexico City, but nobody was charged. Right wing commentators gloated on the class- conscious insults teachers suffered while being attacked.

Even the Major of the Mexico City dispatched the local police to avoid any demonstration of teachers in the Zocalo, the central square of Mexico city. This was an strange occurrence bearing in mind that himself ran for office supported by a left wing party (the PRD the same party of the Governor of Guerrero at the time of the massacre). The PRD had been sympathetic to teachers cause in previous years, but President Peña Nieto made an agreement with the leaders of the PRD called “Pact for Mexico” to carry out his economical and political Neoliberal Reforms

A more disturbing omen came on August 12^th 2014 just one month before the massacre, a journalist close related to the right wing, Carlos Loret the Mola quoted a phrase from a meeting of President Enrique Peña Nieto and his cabinet while discussing teachers boldness: “We are going to fuck them up”. Carlos Loret is known for being very well connected inside the Government even with the intelligence services. He didn't said who or how this came to his knowledge.

After a month from the massacre of Iguala, some journalistic accounts say the Mexican army helped the gunmen to flee the scene. At this moment there are still 43 missing students, even though several mass graves nearby have been unearthed, the prosecutors said the corpses do not belong to the missing students. However a local catholic priest known for helping migrants, Alejandro Solalinde said all 43 students were burned alive and are dead, and the Government knows this but for some reason they do not release any confirmation. He goes further stating that the motive of the massacre was political differences of the students and the government, unlike the official version that claims it was just a drug related crime and nothing else.