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The Little Town that Could, and Did, and Then Didn’t, and Now Wants to Again

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  By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS As a tourist destination, Iguala, the little town in the northeastern corner of the Mexican coastal state of Guerrero, gets a bad rap. Irreparably linked to the 2014 disappearance of 43 rural teachers’ college students who were allegedly disappeared by government forces in the nearby town of Ayotzinapa after they had commandeered a bus to travel

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AMLO Honors Victims on Anniversary of Deadly Quakes

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By KELIN DILLON On the Sunday, Sept. 19, anniversary of Mexico’s deadly 1985 and 2017 earthquakes, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) raised the country’s flag in Mexico City’s Zócalo at half mast in honor of the natural disasters’ victims. The 8.1 magnitude earthquake in 1985 left more than 20,000 dead, while the 2017 seismic shock resulted in 369 fatalities.

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