January 27, 2006

Mexican Court Rejects Trial for Past Leader

By MARION LLOYD

Mexico's Supreme Court this month rejected prosecutors' latest attempt to try a former president, Luis Echeverría, for genocide in a 1968 massacre of student protesters.

In a 3-to-2 vote, a court panel decided against hearing an appeal in the case, holding that it had already ruled on similar charges involving a 1971 crackdown on student protesters in which at least a dozen students were killed.

While the case is of enormous "social, political, and historical importance,"

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