Angry demonstrators in Mexico set fire to party office

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Angry demonstrators in Mexico set fire to party office
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In Mexico's Guerrero State, teachers and students torched the headquarters of President Enrique Peña Nieto's party Tuesday night in protest of the kidnapping and alleged murder of 43 college students.

The demonstrators fought with police and at one point detained the state security chief before letting him go, The New York Times reports. Protests have been taking place since Friday, when officials said they uncovered burned human remains that could be the students. Witnesses claimed the students were kidnapped by police at the request of a local mayor, and then given to a drug gang that killed them.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US
Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.