October 7, 2005
Mexican Judge Blocks Prosecution of Former President for 1968 Massacre of Students
A Mexican judge has refused to issue arrest warrants for the country's former president, Luis Echeverría, and other former officials accused of genocide in the 1968 massacre of student protesters in Mexico City.
The judge's ruling, issued last month, is the latest blow to government efforts to punish those responsible for past repression in Mexico. In July another judge dismissed genocide charges against Mr. Echeverría and his former interior minister, Mario Moya, for
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