New charges expected against Mexico's ex-president

[struggle4progress]

By Lorraine Orlandi

MEXICO CITY, June 19 (Reuters) - A Mexican prosecutor said on Sunday he intends to file long-awaited charges this week against a former president and others for a 1968 massacre of students by government troops.

Special Prosecutor Ignacio Carrillo, boosted by last week's Supreme Court ruling that former President Luis Echeverria can be tried in another case, said new charges of genocide and kidnapping against Echeverria and several others were "completely assembled" and would likely be filed by week's end.

Echeverria, 83, was Interior Minister and head of national security at the time of the 1968 bloodbath, which occurred days before the Olympics opened in Mexico City. Officials said about 30 people were killed by police and soldiers at a rally in the capital, but witnesses put the death toll as high as 300.

Prosecutors say it was part of a systematic government campaign to wipe out dissidents during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Echeverria denies he orchestrated the violence. <snip>

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[Judi Lynn]

1. Echeverria needs to spend some time explaining himself.

It's a triumph seeing these previously U.S.-supported monsters FINALLY having to face the music for what they did to destroy the poor who wouldn't just lie down and be crushed without speaking out.

They labeled everyone who gets angry at their filthy, greedy, violent ways a "communist," a "socialist," a "leftist," as if ANYONE who disagrees with a right-wing fool should be slaughtered as soon as possible.

At long last, Latin American Presidents, supported by our most unbalanced, socially lost, spastic Republican Presidents are getting called out.