Significance: Murillo Karam has been under sustained fire from both the public and the political opposition for his handling of investigations into the abduction and presumed murder of 43 students (trainee teachers) in Iguala, in the state of Guerrero, last September. It seems that President Peña Nieto, who has also been feeling the heat after criticism directed at Mexico during hearings by the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) earlier this month, and with the impending arrival on 1 March of a group of international experts to look into the matter, has decided Murillo Karam’s position has become untenable.
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