Asesinan en #México [1] a coordinador de búsqueda de 43 normalistas de #Ayotzinapa [2] Miguel Ángel Jiménez Blanco http://t.co/WMgteMU0JM [3] Fue @EPN [4]
— PrensaRebelde (@RebeldePrenssa) August 9, 2015 [5]
Miguel Ángel Jiménez Blanco, coordinator of the search for the 43 Ayotzinapa teachers’ college students, was assasinated in Mexico.
Miguel Ángel Jiménez Blanco, 45, was found dead last weekend in a taxi he owned with a gunshot to the head.
In response to authorities’ lack of action against organized crime, he founded a self-defense [6] group in 2013 in the Mexican state of Guerrero. A year later, the group formed a commission to launch the search for the 43 students of the rural teachers’ college in the community of Ayotzinapa who disappeared [7] on September 26, 2014.
The BBC interviewed him about the search:
The activist never found the students, but thanks to his efforts, the search discovered 129 bodies which have been turned over to the authorities for identification.