• A relative of Mexican missing student Jhosivani Guerrero de la Cruz holds his portrait during a march in Acapulco, Guerrero State, Mexico, on March 4. Jhosivani Guerrero is the second of the 43 missing students of Ayotzinapa whose remains are identified, the Mexican government informed on Wednesday. Mexican authorities announced the arrest Thursday of a prime suspect in the massacre, but relatives doubt the truth will come out. | AFP-JIJI
    A relative of Mexican missing student Jhosivani Guerrero de la Cruz holds his portrait during a march in Acapulco, Guerrero State, Mexico, on March 4. Jhosivani Guerrero is the second of the 43 missing students of Ayotzinapa whose remains are identified, the Mexican government informed on Wednesday. Mexican authorities announced the arrest Thursday of a prime suspect in the massacre, but relatives doubt the truth will come out. | AFP-JIJI

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ACAPULCO, MEXICO – Mexico has caught one of the supposed masterminds behind the apparent massacre of 43 student teachers last year, a police source said on Thursday, potentially raising hopes more will come to light in an incident still shrouded in mystery.

Federal police caught Gildardo Lopez, alias “El Gil,” on Wednesday in the tourist town of Taxco, in the southwestern state of Guerrero, the source added, declining to be named given sensitivities around the case.

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