Former Mexican President Luis Echeverria dies at age 100
Former Mexican President Luis Echeverria, blamed for some of Mexico's worst political killings, has died at the age of 100, current President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador confirmed Saturday.
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Former Mexican President Luis Echeverria, blamed for some of Mexico's worst political killings, has died at the age of 100, current President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador confirmed Saturday.
Mexican leftists tried for decades to have the former president put on trial, to no avail.
Luis Echeverria was never tried over some of the worst political killings in the country’s history.
A judge exonerated Echeverria on genocide charges stemming from a 1971 student massacre depicted in the Oscar-winning movie “Roma.”
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Former Mexican President Luis Echeverria, who tried to cast himself as a progressive world leader but was blamed for some of Mexico