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Nov 24, 2014
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More arrests made in missing Mexico students case
The arrest follows a mass march last week. Protesters want answers about the students - all young men - who disappeared almost two months ago.
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO - NOVEMBER 20:  Demonstrators from Guerrero State demand answers concerning 43 missing students during a march November 20, 2014 in Mexico City, Mexico. The students from the Atyotzinapa teaching college near Chilpancingo in Guerrero have been missing since September 26. November 20 marks Mexico's National Day celebrating the Mexican Revolution. (Photo by Brett Gundlock/Getty Images)
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO - NOVEMBER 20: Demonstrators from Guerrero State demand answers concerning 43 missing students during a march November 20, 2014 in Mexico City, Mexico. The students from the Atyotzinapa teaching college near Chilpancingo in Guerrero have been missing since September 26. November 20 marks Mexico's National Day celebrating the Mexican Revolution. (Photo by Brett Gundlock/Getty Images)
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The arrest follows a mass march last week. Protesters want answers about the students - all young men - who disappeared almost two months ago.

More arrests have been made in the case of those 43 students who went missing at the end of September in Iguala, Mexico.

The latest is a former top police official who's a suspected member of Guerreros Unidos. That's the drug cartel that's been at the center of this case.

The arrest follows a mass march last week. Protesters want answers about the students - all young men - who disappeared almost two months ago.

Ruben Martinez is a professor of literature and writing at Loyola Marymount University.

He was at the demonstration in Mexico City and joins Take Two.