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Weekly Report - 21 January 2016 (WR-16-03)

MEXICO: Mass abduction cases re-emerge in Guerrero

In the space of a week, the local authorities in Guerrero state have reported that men suspected of forming part of a local criminal organisation have kidnapped dozens of people near the municipality of Arcelia. As the case of the September 2014 abduction and presumed murder of 34 trainee teachers from the Guerrero town of Iguala by a local criminal gang remains unresolved and continues to be a major issue for the government led by President Enrique Peña Nieto, there is heightened concern that the situation in Arcelia could turn into a new Iguala.

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