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Images outside of Ecuador's Prosecutor General's office, where former vice president Jorge Glas was taken to following his arrest at Mexico's embassy in the capital Quito. Mexico said it has cut diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police stormed the country's embassy on Friday. IMAGES
Images show damage to the entrance of Mexico's presidential palace caused by protesters who knocked down one of the building's doors with a pickup truck while demonstrating for the tragedy of the 43 Ayotzinapa students who have been missing for nearly a decade. IMAGES
Demonstrators throw molotov cocktails over the gates of Mexico's National Intelligence Centre on the eve of the ninth anniversary of the high-profile, unresolved disappearance of 43 students in 2014. The students, from the Ayotzinapa Rural Normal School, disappeared between the night of September 26 and the early morning of September 27, 2014, when they were traveling via bus to participate in demonstrations in Mexico City. The Mexican government has recently promised to provide the parents of the young people with all available information on the case, which a commission of international experts has found to implicate the army. IMAGES
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Sunday condemned violent protests over the apparent massacre of 43 students after demonstrators set fire to the door of his ceremonial palace in Mexico City on Saturday night. Tens of thousands of Mexicans have taken to the streets to protest the government’s handling of the case of the missing students, and last night protesters in central Mexico City set fire to the door of the National Palace.
Mexico's national guard secures a Forensic Medical Service building in Acapulco, where the body of recently elected mayor Salvador Villalba Flores is being kept after he was assassinated. Villalba -- who was to take office in October in Copala, a town of about 4,000 residents about 130 kilometers (80 miles) southeast of Acapulco -- was shot dead while traveling on a highway, according to prosecutors in Guerrero state. IMAGES