Mexico ex-president may avoid massacre trial
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A Mexican judge issued an injunction on Thursday that could prevent former President Luis Echeverria from facing trial for his alleged role in a 1968 massacre of leftist students.
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Genocide charges were dropped against former President Luis Echeverria Saturday when a judge ruled that the statute of limitations had expired, his lawyer said.
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Â· Party boss likely to face more corruption charges  Â· Case would hamper presidential ambitions
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LIMA, Peru, July 11 -- A Chilean Supreme Court judge ruled Wednesday that former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori should not be extradited to Peru to face charges of corruption and human rights abuses.
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Lawyers for Gen. Augusto Pinochet moved Wednesday to prevent questioning of the former dictator by a judge about the disappearance of opponents during his 17-year reign.
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The first civilian president after Argentina's dictatorship ended in 1983 defended his administration's amnesty laws while testifying at a human rights trial, but said he felt relieved when the laws were overturned.
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Fears of disruption force Mexico's president to hold Independence Day celebrations outside the capital.
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MEXICO CITY, Nov. 29 -- A Mexican court reinstated an arrest warrant for former president Luis Echeverr?a on Wednesday, just four months after a federal judge had dismissed the same charges of genocide in connection with a 1968 student massacre.
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A Mexican court suspends the genocide trial of former president Luis Echeverria over student killings in 1968.
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An ex-naval officer from Argentina accused of killing political prisoners during the country's "Dirty War" is going on trial in Spain on Friday.
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The ballots have been cast and counted. But Felipe Calderon isn&#039;t Mexico&#039;s president-elect until the nation&#039;s highest electoral court says so.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Former Chilean dictator Augusto  Pinochet moved closer to his first trial on human rights  violations on Tuesday when Chile's Supreme Court allowed murder  and kidnapping charges against him to go forward.
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FORMER Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is a step closer to being tried for atrocities committed under his 1973-1990 regime after a court stripped him of immunity from prosecution.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia said on Friday that a  top Marxist guerrilla leader may avoid extradition to the  United States if his rebel group frees 63 hostages, including  three Americans and one German.
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico  - One night in May 1994, former U.S. naval officer Saul Sanchez and his wife Abigail were getting ready for the theater in this northern Mexican city when armed men banged on their door and dragged them away. They were never seen again.
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A former Bosnian army commander accused of letting his Muslim fighters kill dozens of Serbs and Croats will be acquitted if judges refuse to allow more witnesses to testify, prosecutors said Monday as his trial began.
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Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator, was stripped of presidential immunity by Chile&#39;s highest court in a ruling that may lead to charges that he took part in killings during his regime.