MEXICO CITY—Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador signed a decree on Dec. 3 to set up a commission tasked with determining what happened to 43 missing and presumed killed trainee teachers kidnapped in 2014, a crime that continues to loom large in the country.
“This is a matter of state,” Lopez Obrador said at an event with parents of the missing on his first weekday in office, following his inauguration on Dec. 1. He also offered protection to witnesses so they could safely tell their stories.
