Mexican mayor's wife who 'ordered cartel to kill 43 students for threatening to interrupt her speech' is taken to prison

The wife of a Mexican mayor whose police force turned 43 students over to a drug gang that allegedly killed them has been charged with organized crime and money laundering.

Maria de los Angeles Pineda is the wife of Jose Luis Abarca, the former mayor of Iguala, a city in southern Guerrero state. 

Pineda's brothers were leading members of the Guerreros Unidos drug gang, according to prosecutors. Federal prosecutor Tomas Zeron said Monday that Pineda has been charged with organized crime related to drug trafficking, and use of illicit funds.

Abarca's police force allegedly worked hand-in-glove with the Guerreros Unidos gang. 

When students from a rural teacher's college went to Iguala to hijack buses on September 26, Iguala police detained them and turned them over to the gang, which then allegedly killed them and burned their bodies. 

Only one of the students has been identified from charred bits of bone.