Mexico: A fifth bus on the Iguala students case

42 student teachers have been missing in Mexico for nearly a year.

Authorities had previously identified the remains of 1, out of the 43 students from a rural teacher’s college in Ayotzinapa who traveled to Iguala in four buses.

Now the Discovery of ‘fifth’ bus adds to mystery of Iguala missing students case. OAS says Mexican authorities did not probe key vehicle that may have been carrying heroin

Experts commissioned by the OAS say there was a fifth bus at the scene of the crime and, despite the fact that there were students on it, it was never attacked. Armed police stopped the vehicle and the students ran off into the hills, the report says. Mexican officials considered the vehicle an insubstantial piece of evidence and failed to mention it in their report.

OAS experts now think the fifth bus was in fact an important part of the case. The organization believe that it may have concealed a shipment of heroin, the main drug trafficked in Guerrero, which feeds the United States black market.

The plot thickens while the authorities waffle:

OAS experts say the students probably took the vehicle from the bus terminal to travel to an event in Mexico City commemorating the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre without being aware of the hidden cargo. And that this fact was fully known by those who did not want that bus to make it to the march.

The problem for the commission was that the Mexican Attorney General’s Office (PGR) had not considered the bus an object of its investigation. Although the bus had been “recorded” in the report, it was given scant consideration.

The article has much more, but one thing remains clear: Somebody – most likely at the PGR- doesn’t want the truth to come out.

In other Mexican drug news, a doctor would lose his license for prescribing medical marihuana.