Author(s): Onur AÄKAYA* Ayfer GENÃ YILMAZ
In 2014, a group of students were attacked by police and unidentified gunmen in Iguala and 43 students were forcibly disappeared. Called as Iguala Massacre, this incident could not be conceived separately from the historical place of the violent environment of Mexico and its actors which are the state and drug cartels. The state incapacity problematic that has deepened with the commence of the democratisation process in the 2000s offers an essential analytical framework to understand the general violence in the country and the Iguala Massacre in particular. The disappearance of students under police custody and at the hands of police and drug cartel members should be analysed concerning the loss of monopoly of violence by Mexican state and to the problem of politicisation of state institutions and their incapacity at reaching Mexican society. Instead of exploring the Iguala Massacre as one violent situation among many others, this study analyses the incidence in the context of incapacity of the Mexican state which has been accumulated historically.
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