Angel Aguirre, then-governor of the state of Guerrero, announces he is stepping aside during an Oct. 23, 2014 press conference in Chilpancingo, Mexico. Federal prosecutors said Thursday that they arrested Ángel Aguirre, Guerrero’s former governor, on accusations of “concealing evidence to determine the whereabouts of the students” of the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College. Aguirre governed Guerrero from 2011 until October 2014, one month after the students disappeared. According to Mexican authorities, a cartel in the city of Iguala attacked the students in collusion with security forces and local, state and federal authorities, including the military. AdvertisementThe administration of former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who served from 2018 to 2024, described the Ayotzinapa case as a “state crime.”