Drug cartel figure held over disappearance of 43 Mexican students

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>A suspended high-ranking drug cartel member implicated in last year’s disappearance of 43 college students in the Mexican state of Guerrero has been captured&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>National Security Commissioner Renato Sales confirmed the detention of Gildardo Lopez Astudillo&comma; 36&comma; calling him the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;intellectual author” of the students’ disappearance&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He was arrested on Wednesday in the city of Taxco and is suspected of involvement in drug distribution&comma; extortion and organised crime&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In November&comma; the then attorney general Jesus Murillo Karam said Lopez Astudillo had informed his drug gang boss&comma; Sidronio Casarrubias Salgado&comma; that rivals were causing trouble in the city of Iguala&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Casarrubias allegedly instructed him to defend their turf&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The government’s investigation maintains local police in Iguala illegally detained the students from the Rural Normal School of Ayotzinapa on September 26 last year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They turned them over to the Guerreros Unidos gang&comma; where the authorities say they were killed and incinerated at a rubbish dump&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; family members continue to doubt the official account of what happened&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A recent report presented by a group of independent experts has discredited many aspects of the official inquiry&comma; such as discounting the possibility that the bodies were burned on a giant pyre at the dump&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Authorities say they have identified the remains of two of the missing students&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The identification of the second victim&comma; Jhosivani Guerrero de la Cruz&comma; was announced on Wednesday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A team of Argentine investigators also working on the case said on Thursday night that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;serious questions” remain about the origin of samples that were tested and it does not consider the identification a definitive result&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ece80b288d8">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; window&period;tudeMappings &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings&period;push&lpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;divId&colon; 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ece80b288d8'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;format&colon; 'belowpost'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; document&period;readyState &equals;&equals;&equals; 'loading' &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;document&period;addEventListener&lpar; 'DOMContentLoaded'&comma; window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; else &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback&lpar;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;script>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>


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