APNewsBreak: Ex-Mexico president claims immunity

[Judi Lynn]

APNewsBreak: Ex-Mexico president claims immunity
Associated Press | Posted: Friday, January 6, 2012 1:44 pm

Former Mexico President Ernesto Zedillo is claiming his status as a former national leader gives him immunity from a lawsuit filed in Connecticut over the 1997 killings of 45 people in a Mexican village.

Zedillo's attorneys filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit Friday in U.S. District Court in Hartford. A copy of the motion was obtained by The Associated Press.

Zedillo also denied the allegations that he bears responsibility for the massacre by paramilitary groups in Acteal, in the southern state of Chiapas, and that he tried to cover up the killings.

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Zedillo was president of Mexico from 1994 to 2000. He is now a Yale University professor.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/national/apnewsbreak-ex-mexico-president-claims-immunity/article_b8fb2b72-cdbc-5c5a-b5c4-4ef9be87d136.html

LBN:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101419351



Dr. Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León







Argentina's President Cristina de Fernandez, meeting in New York

[Peace Patriot]

1. Yet another prestigious U.S. university gives academic honor to Latin America's criminals.

I thought that Harvard and Georgetown giving academic sinecures to Colombia's crime boss (and former 'president') Alvaro Uribe was uniquely awful.

Guess not.