Enrique Pena Nieto

Argentine-led forensic experts strongly criticized Mexico's investigation into the presumed massacre of 43 missing students on Feb. 7, insisting the probe must remain open as they listed a series of mishaps.
      

Authorities in Mexico can now say with "legal certainty" that 43 students who went missing in September were murdered by hitmen working for a drug gang, the justice minister said on Jan. 27.

The family of the first victim identified among 43 missing Mexican students lamented the dashed dreams of the aspiring teacher Dec. 8, calling for justice in the case that has shocked the country.
      

Masked demonstrators threw Molotov cocktails and shot fireworks at police near Mexico City's airport on Nov. 20 as thousands prepared to protest President Enrique Pena Nieto's handling of the apparent massacre of 43 trainee teachers.
   

Nestle, one of the world's top food companies, apologized on Monday for an offensive tweet about 43 missing trainee teachers apparently massacred in southwest Mexico, saying it was "unauthorized".
   

The hunt for a fugitive ex-mayor and his wife accused of running their Mexican town as a narco-fiefdom and ordering an attack that killed six people and left 43 college students missing ended Nov. 4 in a rough-and-tumble neighborhood of Mexico City where they were hiding.

The Mexican government has recalculated the number of people who have disappeared since the start of the country's drug war in 2006, now saying a total of 22,322 are missing. It had said in May that 8,000 people were missing.