FEDERAL JUDGE REFUSES TO ORDER ARREST OF FORMER PRESIDENT LUIS ECHEVERRIA, RULES THAT GENOCIDE CHARGES ARE NOT APPLICABLE. From: SourceMex Economic News & Analysis on Mexico | Date: August 3, 2005 | COPYRIGHT 2005 Latin American Data Base/Latin American Institute. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

In late July, a federal judge refused to order the arrest of former President Luis Echeverria Alvarez (1970-1976) and ex-interior secretary Mario Moya Palencia in connection with the violent repression of student demonstrators in 1971. Echeverria and Moya are accused of ordering an elite police unit known as the Halcones, or Falcons, to attack demonstrators with tear gas, pistols, machine guns, and batons, resulting in several deaths. The crackdown is known as the Jueves de Corpu...

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