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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lucy Popescu

History Keeps Me Awake at Night by Christy Edwall review – Roberto Bolaño-inspired debut

The memorial site for the 43 missing students
The memorial site for the 43 missing students. Photograph: Rodrigo Arangua/AFP/Getty Images

On 26 September 2014, 43 male students were abducted in southwestern Mexico. The trainee teachers had commandeered several buses to travel to Mexico City to mark the anniversary of the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre. Initially it was alleged that the drug cartel Guerreros Unidos had killed them. Federal and state authorities have since been implicated in their murder.

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