Former Mexican president Luis Echeverria has died at the age of 100, current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says.
Luis Echeverria Alvarez speaks in Mexico City on Nov. 16, 1969 while taking the oath as the official Institutional Revolutionary Party nominee for Mexico's 1970-76 presidential race.MEXICO CITY — Former Mexican president Luis Echeverria died at the age of 100, current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed Saturday.
The judge ruled that Echeverria may have been responsible for homicide, but could not be tried because the statute of limitations for that crime expired in 1985. In 2004, he became the first former Mexican head of state formally accused of criminal wrongdoing. Prosecutors linked Echeverria to the country’s so-called “dirty war” in which hundreds of leftist activists and members of fringe guerrilla groups were imprisoned, killed, or simply disappeared without a trace.
According to military reports, at least 360 government snipers were placed on buildings surrounding the protesters. Shortly afterward, he began his political career with the then-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI. He later held posts in the navy and Education Department, advanced to chief administrative officer of the PRI and organized the presidential campaign of Adolfo Lopez Mateos, who served as Mexico’s leader from 1958-64.
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