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    Mexico arrests a retired general in the case of dozens of missing students

    by The Associated Press Sep 16, 2022 3 minutes

    MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities have arrested a retired general and three other members of the army for alleged connection to the disappearance of 43 students in southern Mexico in 2014, the government announced Thursday.

    Assistant Public Safety Secretary Ricardo Mejia said that among those arrested was the former officer who commanded the army base in the Guerrero state city of Iguala in September 2014, when the students from a radical teacher's college were abducted.

    Mejía said a fourth arrest was expected soon, and later a government official with knowledge

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