Disappeared: Mexico's Missing 43
Episode 1
BBC Two | 60mins
On 26 September 2014, a group of students were violently attacked on their way to a protest in Mexico City. Forty-three young men were taken away by municipal police and have never been seen again.
This documentary hears how federal investigators initially blamed corrupt local police and a local drug cartel for the attacks, but in the weeks and months that followed, civil unrest grew as the parents of the missing boys became increasingly suspicious of the official investigation.
Featuring survivors, families of the missing and exclusive interviews with Tomás Zerón De Lucio, the fugitive former head of the Mexican Criminal Investigation Agency (CIA) and Omar Gómez Trejo, the exiled former special prosecutor.
"Corruption on a mindblowing scale...with illuminating footage and interviews...an engrossing two-part documentary" - The Guardian
"Superbly put together, clear and damning" - Benjamin T. Smith, author of The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade
"An extraordinary and raw documentary...Truth is stranger than fiction" - Mundiario
"Devastating and shocking" - La Jornada
**** Daily Mail
Pick of the Day in The Times, Guardian, The Telegraph, Daily Mail, The Sun & The Radio Times
Very Best of the Week Ahead in Sunday Telegraph & Critic's Choice in The Sunday Times
Watch the full two-part series on BBC iPlayer
CREDITS
Series Directed and Filmed by Oliver Englehart & Mark Casebow
Producer: Santiago González Gavilanes
Film Editor: Robyn Wright
Composer: Simon Russell
Executive Producer: Sarah Waldron
Produced inhouse by BBC Current Affairs for BBC Two
