Obama: US ‘Offered’ Help to Mexico in Search for Missing Students

*The first official U.S. acknowledgement of the missing 43 came 11 days after the students went missing. VL

By Daniel Hernandez, VICE News

President Barack Obama said last week the US government has offered help to Mexico in its search for the missing Ayotzinapa Normal School students, touching on the raw subject of US aid in Mexico amid persistent drug-war violence.

“We’ve offered assistance in tracking down exactly what happened, our forensic capabilities, our capacity to get to the bottom of exactly what happened,” Obama said in an interview that aired Tuesday on US Spanish-language network Telemundo.

“This does affect us. Mexico is our friend and our neighbor,” Obama added. “We want them to thrive.”

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[Photo by The White House/Flickr]

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