Everything about this story is batshit crazy…until you remember that this is Mexico we’re talking about, which basically exists inside of a Rob Rodriguez movie at all times.
From the AP (via MSN):
Mexicans got a rare glimpse into the rough-and-tumble student organizations at many of Mexico’s universities Thursday, after five bodies were found buried at one group’s headquarters in the western city of Guadalajara.
Jalisco state Attorney General Tomas Coronado said relatives had identified three of the dead as high school students who were reported missing along with two other people last week after they complained that the student group was demanding protection money to sell snacks outside a campus.
Frankly, I don’t know what the “rare glimpse” business is all about, since apparently:
The first three bodies were found two days after two college students in nearby Guerrero state were killed in a clash with police after student protesters hijacked buses, used them to block a highway and fought officers with rocks and sticks.
Highly organized, semiformal and often violent groups are commonplace at Mexican universities. It is a phenomenon that dates back at least to the 1950s, but swelled during student radicalization in the 1960s. [emphasis my own]
Honestly, I could cite the whole bloody (both meanings) article here, so just read the rest yourself and thank Quetzalcoatl that you go to school in America, where even Virginia Tech looks tame compared to Mexican universities.
