In news from Mexico, a team of independent experts says authorities have blocked them from interviewing soldiers who may have witnessed the disappearance of 43 students in the southern state of Guerrero almost a year ago. Investigators with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights say authorities did not inform the families of the 43 students that some of their clothing had been discovered shortly after their disappearance. Investigators also said it is possible that security video of the incident may been destroyed. The 43 young men, who were training at the rural teachers’ college of Ayotzinapa, went missing last year after being detained by local police. A member of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission spoke Monday.

Claudia Paz y Paz: “We have special concern for loss of evidence in the case. We have informed the authorities of the Attorney General’s Office about the existence, at the time, of a video recording at the scene of the police intervention that led to the disappearance of a group of students.”