SUPREME COURT AGREES TO HEAR ARGUMENTS ON WHETHER FORMER PRESIDENT ECHEVERRIA CAN STAND TRIAL FOR 1971 MASSACRE.

SourceMex Economic News & Analysis on Mexico | October 20, 2004 | Copyright

In a far-reaching decision, Mexico's highest court (Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nacion, SCJN) has agreed to hear arguments on whether former President Luis Echeverria Alvarez (1970-1976) and other officials can be tried for their role in the massacre of dozens of students in 1971. The decision was announced in early October by a four-member panel of SCJN justices, which had been assigned to review the matter.

Echeverria and the other officials are accused of having ordered an elite police unit known as the Halcones, or Falcons, to violently repress student ...

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