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Protesters Storm Mexico's Presidential Palace Demanding Justice for Missing Students

Using a pickup truck, demonstrators breached the National Palace in Mexico City to protest the unresolved disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa in 2014.

  • Protesters demanding answers for the 2014 disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College broke into Mexico's National Palace.
  • A pickup truck, owned by Mexico's state electrical company, was used as a battering ram to breach the palace doors.
  • President Andrés Manuel López Obrador downplayed the incident, calling it a provocation and stating the door would be fixed.
  • Police used tear gas to disperse protesters, and some individuals involved in the breach were arrested.
  • The protest is part of ongoing demonstrations against what a government truth commission called a 'state crime,' involving local, state, and federal authorities.
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