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Source: Chronicle of Higher Education

Breaking News

January 13, 2006

Former president of Mexico won't be prosecuted for student massacre of 1968

MEXICO'S SUPREME COURT on Wednesday rejected prosecutors' latest attempt to try a former president for genocide in a 1968 massacre of student protesters. A panel of justices upheld a lower court's ruling that the prosecutors did not have enough evidence to justify a trial.

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