Mexico's missing students: Mass protests due
The protests for the missing students reflect wider anger at political corruption.
Mass protests are expected in Mexico for a group of 43 students who disappeared in September.
Caravans containing relatives of the missing are due to converge on Mexico City. They have been travelling around the country rallying support.
The Mexican authorities say local police handed the students to a drug gang who then murdered them.
But some families of the missing are unconvinced by this explanation and still hope they will be found alive.
Thousands of people are expected to take part in the march in the capital. There are also protests planned in other parts of Mexico and abroad.
The abduction has galvanised opposition to rampant political corruption and violence, says the BBC's Wyre Davies in Mexico City.
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has accused some of the protestors of trying to "destabilise" the state.
The students, all trainee teachers, went missing after attending a protest in Iguala, Guerrero State.
Forensic tests are being carried out on bodies found in mass graves in the state.
More than 100,000 people have been killed and 27,000 have disappeared in Mexico in the last decade.
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