No arrest for Mexico ex-president
A Mexican judge has refused to issue an arrest warrant for a former president accused of genocide.
The judge said the charges against Luis Echeverria did not amount to genocide.
Mr Echeverria, now 83, was accused of ordering a massacre of student protesters in 1968, days before the Olympic Games opened in Mexico City.
As many as 300 people may have died when government agents hidden among regular soldiers opened fire on students, prosecutors allege.
Judge Ranulfo Castillo said several other officials charged with Mr Echeverria over the massacre could not be prosecuted because the statute of limitations - a legal time limit for bringing a case to trial - had expired.
In Mr Echeverria’s case, Judge Castillo said the 1968 killings could not be classed as genocide, which is defined as an attempt to destroy an entire ethnic or national group.
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American fugitive detained in Mexico
The nine-month search for a man wanted in the abduction and slaying of a Dallas restaurateur ended with an arrest in a Mexican resort town Friday.
Mexican federal authorities captured Edgar "Richie" Acevedo in Cabo San Lucas and were preparing to take the 25-year-old former waiter at an Oscar Sanchez family restaurant to Mexico City, Dallas police said.
FBI Special Agent Lori Bailey confirmed the arrest, but would not discuss details.
Sanchez was kidnapped the morning of Jan. 18 in what police believe was a staged car wreck in Dallas. His body was found in a field in
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Advertising A Mexican court has issued four new arrest warrants against former government officials wanted in the forced disappearance of dissidents in the 1970s, special prosecutor Ignacio Carrillo announced on Sunday.
Six members of the Brigada Campesina de los Lacandones were arrested in central Mexican state of Hidalgo in 1974 and turned over illegally to the now-dissolved Federal Security Directorate, never to be seen again, according to prosecutors.
The new arrest orders in the Hidalgo case bring to 16 the number of warrants issued as prosecutors pursue crimes of the so-called "dirty
Police arrest man wanted in Ill., Mexico
A fugitive who is wanted in Illinois, Iowa and Mexico was arrested after forcing his way into an apartment and later falling asleep on the couch.
Juan Javier Tapia, 24, who was been featured on the television show Americas Most Wanted, was arrested Sunday after forcing his way into an apartment and trying to fight with a resident there.
Gwinnett County police arrived to find Tapia had eaten all the residents food and had drunk all of his alcohol, said Darren Moloney, spokesman for the Gwinnett County Police Department. The officers found Tapia
Thomas rips Mexico in illegals’ arrest case
Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas told Mexico not to meddle in his prosecution of illegal immigrants Friday, a day when thousands rallied in the streets against harsh immigration reform.
Thomas had a letter hand-delivered to the Consulate General of Mexico in Phoenix telling the Mexican government that it is responsible for the problems associated with illegal immigration.
Thomas wrote the letter in response to a March 9 letter the consulate sent Thomas outlining a number steps the Mexican government wanted him to take in presenting a case to the grand jury against 48 illegal
Mexico says done all it could for dirty war trials
Mexican President Vicente Fox's government on Friday admitted there was little else it could do to punish former officials for their past repression of leftist dissidents after a court dealt the administration another legal setback this week.
A judge this week refused to issue arrest orders for former Mexican President Luis Echeverria and seven others for a 1968 student massacre by police and soldiers.
It was the latest setback to Fox's attempts to bring to justice former members of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, who committed atrocities against leftists for decades. The
Tucson teen wanted in murder case arrested in Mexico
A teenager sought in a slaying has been taken into custody by authorities in Mexico and turned over to U.S. officers in Douglas.
Authorities said Robert C. "Manny" Garcia, 16, was booked Friday into the Pima County Jail on a charge of first-degree murder in the May 14 death of 18-year-old Jimmy Lee Rose of Tucson, who was shot numerous times after a fight.
A murder warrant had been issued for Garcia's arrest.
Garcia was ordered held in lieu of $1 million bail on the murder charge and was held without bail on a
Mexico Confirms Fujimori Passed Through Its Territory
Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez has corroborated that ex President of Peru Alberto Fujimori, who said he never left the plane, passed through Mexico on his way to Chile.
He went legally through Mexico although INTERPOL had issued a red alert (warrant) but did not submit an official extradition request.
Derbez said the ex head of state "apparently was present for some 45 minutes during refueling of the plane that flew in from Tokyo."
He said that local authorities were aware of this, but lacked the power to arrest him in the absence of an order
Once-mighty party in Mexico on skids
A secretly recorded telephone conversation and a stumbling presidential campaign have Mexicans asking if the country's long-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party finally may be headed to the grave.
All major opinion polls show the party, more commonly known by its Spanish initials PRI, a distant third in July's presidential elections. The same polls show the party losing seats in Congress, where its presence as the largest voting bloc allowed it to remain a power even after Vicente Fox became Mexico's first non-PRI president in 70 years.
Adding to the party's slippage is the recording of a prominent state
Once-mighty party in Mexico on skids
A secretly recorded telephone conversation and a stumbling presidential campaign have Mexicans asking if the country's long-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party finally may be headed to the grave.
All major opinion polls show the party, more commonly known by its Spanish initials PRI, a distant third in July's presidential elections. The same polls show the party losing seats in Congress, where its presence as the largest voting bloc allowed it to remain a power even after Vicente Fox became Mexico's first non-PRI president in 70 years.
Adding to the party's slippage is the recording of a prominent state
Bulgarian Murder in Mexico Goes Unpunished for 2 Years
The murder of Bulgaria-descended Marika Dimitrova, who was shot dead in the Mexican city of Leon at the end of 2003, has remained unpunished for two years already, the Mexican online edition "A.M." reported.
The incident took place near the school where the woman was teaching French and Spanish. Dimitrova was just about to get out of her car when a passing-by motorcyclist shot at her December 17 2003.
Two years after the murder the Mexican prosecutor's office has failed to arrest the killer.
Initially there have been speculations that the perpetrator
