2 Detectives Found Safe After Disappearing While Looking Into Mexico’s 2014 Case of Missing Students

Published on March 13, 2024

MEXICO CITY—Two federal detectives have been found unharmed after they went missing in Mexico’s Pacific coast state of Guerrero while investigating the disappearances of 43 students almost 10 years ago. Officials did not say Tuesday how the man and woman were found or whether they had been freed from captivity. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador mentioned their disappearances over the weekend at his daily news briefing, noting, “I hope this is not related to those who do not want us to find the youths.” The disappearances were the latest sign of what appeared to be a generalized breakdown in law and order in Guerrero state, home to the resort of Acapulco. The state has been dogged for a decade by the disappearances of 43 students from a rural teachers’ college in Guerrero in 2014 who are believed to have been abducted by local officials and turned over to a drug gang to be killed....