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Rogelio Ortega Martinez Named as New Governor of Troubled Guerrero, Mexico
The legislature in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero on Sunday named Rogelio Ortega Martinez as governor, replacing Angel Aguirre, to aid in the search for 43 missing students.
State lawmakers voted 39-6 to appoint Ortega Martinez to serve until Oct. 27, 2015, in a bid to reduce the tension, discontent and growing protests in Guerrero and across Mexico arising from the lack of results in the investigation into the students’ disappearance.
Minutes after the appointment, a legislative committee met with the new governor in an extraordinary session.
Local media reported that Ortega Martinez served as head of the Autonomous University of Guerrero and has been an activist who has maintained good relations with different student organizations in the state.
In addition, he participated in the work to politically reform Guerrero during the government of Zeferino Torreblanca.
Former Gov. Aguirre presented his resignation last Thursday after four weeks of mounting social pressure over the lack of results in the investigation and accusations of negligence and incompetence in clearing up the case of the 43 students who disappeared in Iguala.
On Sept. 26, municipal police – on orders of then-Iguala Mayor Jose Luis Abarca and his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda – opened fire on teacher trainee students and others, killing six of them, wounding 25 and arresting 43 others, who then disappeared.
According to the investigation conducted by Mexican authorities, police from the nearby town of Cocula also participated in handing over the students to a Guerreros Unidos criminal group lieutenant identified as “Gil.”
The whereabouts of the youths is unknown because the 52 suspects detained by authorities, including purported Guerreros Unidos leader Sidronio Casarrubias, do not include Gil or two other suspected cartel members who allegedly received the students from the hands of police.
Published in Latino Daily News
Source: http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/latino-daily-news/details/rogelio-ortega-martinez-named-as-new-governor-of-troubled-guerrero-mexico/31381#When:20:55:13Z
