Since November of 2014, Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto's administration has been claiming that forty-three students were burned at a dump site in Cocula. Recently, this has been disproven by a forensic analysis on Tuesday, February 9th in Mexico City. With a further analysis, the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team were able to discredit the Mexican government's long winded explanation of the forty-three missing students, thought to be caused by the police of Iguala. When the families of the missing students got wind of this, an immense amount of anger erupted and they began to protest for answers.

It was stated by Mexico's former Attorney General, Jesus Murillo Karam, in November 2014, that police had abducted the students and handed them over to the Guerreros Unidos drug gang. That's what led the administration to say the members of the gang led the students to a dump site in a town near Cocula and executed them, leading to the heinous act of burning their bodies.

Yet, due to the work done by the Argentine Forensic Anthropology team, that completely flips the original story. They stated that there was not enough burn damage to the dump site to be consistent with burning 43 bodies. They now believe it is time to focus their attention on looking for the students in new areas. Alongside the false burn marks, there was evidence of finding 39 shell casing from multiple long, rifle like guns, unlike the handguns the government claimed to have been used in many previous statements.

There have been over 100 people arrested in the Nieto's administration in connection with the case but no further arrests/convictions have been made. Jose Vivanco, the Americas director for Human Rights Watch, believes Mexico needs to not only investigate into the disappearance of the forty-three students but also into the authorities involved in the falsified case.

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