{"id":64311,"date":"2018-04-28T06:27:44","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T06:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=64311"},"modified":"2018-04-28T06:27:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T06:27:44","slug":"thousands-rally-drug-cartel-violence-mexico-following-film-students-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/thousands-rally-drug-cartel-violence-mexico-following-film-students-deaths.html","title":{"rendered":"Thousands rally against drug cartel violence in Mexico following film students&#8217; deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 18pt;color: #000000\">Thousands rally against drug cartel violence in Mexico following film students&#8217; deaths<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Demonstrators poured onto the streets of Mexico Friday to protest the brutal slaying of three film students by gang members who mistook them for rivals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Nearly 12,000 people, including university students and teachers from five universities, flooded Guadalajara Thursday, calling for peace and justice in the crime-ridden region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Authorities confirmed Monday that Salomon Aceves Gastelum, 25, Daniel Diaz, 20, and Marco Avalos, 20, were kidnapped, tortured, and killed by members of a drug cartel last month, CBS News reported. Their bodies were later dissolved in acid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">\u201cThe absurd war on drugs is taking our classmates and we will not allow it anymore,\u201d Jesus Medina, a student at the University of Guadalajara, told CBS News.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The public was also horrified by rapper Christian Omar Palma Gutierrez\u2019s confession that he dissolved the students\u2019 bodies in acid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The YouTube star \u2014 known as \u201cQBA\u201d \u2014 admitted to working for the Jalisco New Generation drug cartel for 3,000 pesos \u2014 $159 \u2014 per week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">He is also connected to the murders of three victims whose bodies were disposed of in the same way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">He faces charges of aggravated kidnap in connection to the film students\u2019 deaths, CBS News reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">\u201cPeople like that who no longer feel &#8230; they have forgotten what it is to be human. A total lack of values,\u201d student Jose Eduardo Gomez told AFP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The film students were abducted on March 19 while filming a school project at a home that Nueva Plaza, a rival gang, had used as a safe house. The Jalisco New Generation cartel \u2014 one of Mexico\u2019s most powerful \u2014 had been monitoring the location.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The students were reportedly mistaken for members of the rival gang, authorities said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">More than 200,000 people have been murdered since the government launched a military campaign against organized crime in 2006. Another 30,000 have disappeared over the past 12 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 8pt;color: #000000\">Source:-http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/world\/thousands-rally-mexico-film-students-deaths-article-1.3959107<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/thousands-rally-drug-cartel-violence-mexico-following-film-students-deaths.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands rally against drug cartel violence in Mexico following film students&#8217; deaths Demonstrators poured onto the streets of Mexico Friday to protest the brutal slaying of three film students by gang members who mistook them for rivals. 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