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The number of journalists killed in retaliation for their work has jumped twice in 2020. Criminal and combat gangs target journalists working in both democratic and violence-ridden countries, shows a report by the U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists (JPC).

The remains of a second of 43 missing Mexican students have possibly been identified, authorities said on Sept.16, almost a year after a crime that rocked President Enrique Pena Nieto's administration.

Mexican authorities insisted on Sept.7 that a large number of the 43 students who disappeared last year were incinerated at a landfill, after an independent probe contradicted the official conclusion.

Mexico's official account of the abduction and apparent massacre of 43 students last year does not add up, a team of international experts said on Sept.6, citing deep flaws in the government's investigation and dismissing its claims that the victims were incinerated in a garbage dump.

The search for 43 missing college students in the southern state of Guerrero has turned up at least 60 clandestine graves and 129 bodies over the last 10 months, Mexico's attorney general's office says.
     

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.

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.