A mass kidnapping turned deadly.

I'm Jason Horton.

I'm Rebecca Leib.

And this is Ghost Town. We don't really talk about many kidnappings on this podcast. We don't we talk a lot about

murders, haunted things, phenomena, you know like we talk a lot about that but kidnapping

is something that we neglect a lot of the time and I'm going to make that right today.

So today we're going to be talking about the 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping, which is very horrifying.

It's not going to be one of our lighter episodes I would say. It's got a lot of

revolution. It's got a lot of political chaos. It's got buses of all kinds.

It's got a lot of moving parts.

Yeah, it does, it does.

So buckle up.

So we're going to start with the Raoul-Izro Burgos

Rural Teachers College.

And I also want to apologize if I get any of the names

wrong mispronounce I am so so white and it is painful to me every day. So I'm I am

horrible at pronunciations in general, even in English, horrible pronunciations.

Anyway, it was founded in 1926.

The Raoul Isdro Burgos Rural Teachers College is an Iota-Zinnapa. In Guerrero, Mexico, which is along the Pacific

coast, it's very close to Acapulco as a frame of reference. And it is an all-male school

that has been associated with a lot of student activism, a lot of

militant radical protests, which involved a lot of hijacking buses, delivery trucks, kind of

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