http://time.com/3574953/mexico-missing-students-protests/
There have been protests in Mexico calling for President Enrique Peña Nieto and Attorney General Jesús Murilla Karam to resign ever since the government announced that the 43 college kids that were missing since September were killed by a drug gang and burned in a pyre of branches and tires. These demonstrations have been largely peaceful until recently when a few masked demonstrators set fire to the door of Mexico City's ceremonial presidential palace. The mayor of Iguala, where the students went missing, has allegedly had ties to the drug gang since he first took office.
There is a lot of confusion and unconfirmed facts in this situation. Yes, the government seems to not be at its best since they were not able to find the missing students. But we don't know for sure if the mayor of Iguala is connected to the drug gang and almost nothing else about the government's work on the case. No matter the amount of information we have or how many wrong decisions the government has made demonstrators should not have resorted to violence especially since they were doing a really good job in keeping the protest peacefull. I hope no one was hurt in the incident.
Groups of people should not resort to violence at such an extreme. I think people are doubting the reliability and control of the government because of their response to such serious allegations.
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