Secret Data May Incriminate Former Mexican President Echeverria in Massacres teleSUR
go to original August 20, 2015

Former Mexican President Luis Echeverria Alvarez at a press conference. (Reuters)

The Mexican Attorney General has been ordered to hand over any and all information pertaining to the infamous 1968 student massacre in Tlatelolco, Mexico City as well as the Corpus Christi Massacre of 1971 – information that may implicate former President Luis Echeverria Alvarez in the crimes.  

The National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (INAI) made the order saying, “the disclosure enables society to know the historical truth of the events that occurred on October 2, 1968 and June 10, 1971, since blocking the information book create more damage,” said INAI president Ximena Puente.

With this decision, the INAI has effectively removed a 12-year block on all such information that was imposed by former President Vicente Fox during his presidency. Fox implemented the information block in 2007 after he dissolved the Special Prosecutor for Social and Political Movements of the Past – a government body that was investigating the two student massacres.

Puente said the secret files contain information that could incriminate several people for the crime of genocide, including former president Echeverria (1970-1976).

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Here's an audio-visual collage Hernán Castillo put together as a way to commemorate and remember the lives of those who fell during that tragic night in Tlatelolco Plaza. (Hernán Castillo)

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