Tens Of Thousands Protest Over Missing Students
Tens of thousands of people marched down Mexico City's main boulevard Wednesday evening to protest the disappearance of 43 young people in the southern part of the country and demand the government find them.
The largely young crowd carried Mexican flags with black mourning bands replacing the red and green stripes, counting off the numbers from one to 43. Protesters also chanted: "They took them away alive, and alive we want them back."
In Chilpancingo, the capital of Guerrero state, groups of protesters angry about the government's inability to find the missing used hijacked trucks to block all three highways leading into the city for several hours.
The missing youths were enrolled at a rural teachers college in Guerrero. They had been taken away by police after a confrontation in the city of Iguala on Sept. 26.