March 11, 2005

'Dirty War' Case in Mexico Is Set Back

By MARION LLOYD

Mexico's Supreme Court dealt a blow to efforts to prosecute a former president, Luis Echeverría, and other former top officials for genocide in connection with a 1971 massacre of students, in a decision that will have major implications for other cases related to the country's "dirty war" against leftists a generation ago.

In a 4-to-1 vote, a Supreme Court panel ruled that Mexico's 30-year time limit on trying genocide cases applied to the crimes. But it left open the

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