Echeverria was named as the person responsible for the so-called “Halconazo”.
He served as a key actor in the Tlatelolco Massacre of 1968, in which 300 young people were killed.
The former president was investigated and put on trial for genocide in the 1968 case.
On the night of Friday, July 8, Luis Echeverría Álvarez, president of Mexico from 1970 to 1976, passed away at the age of one hundred, according to information from sources close to the family of the former president who during his term was singled out as one of the of those responsible for the student massacres of October 2, 1968 in Tlatelolco and June 10, 1971 in the streets of Mexico City.
Let us remember that Echeverría was known for exercising State violence, political persecution, disappearances and repression against student protests during his mandate, for which he was investigated and put on trial for genocide in the 1968 case, based on the accusation made by the extinct Special Prosecutor for Social and Political Movements of the Past (Femospp), but the case concluded judicially in 2009, with a resolution that exonerated him.
He was named as the person responsible for the so-called “Halconazo” or the Thursday of the Corpus massacre of June 10, 1971, when paramilitaries attacked student organizations, leaving 17 dead.
In addition, he served as a key actor in the Tlatelolco Massacre of 1968, in which 300 young people were murdered, when he served as Secretary of the Interior during the Gustavo Díaz Ordaz period.
This accusation of the Femospp indicated that Echeverría “was the conceived and preparer who intentionally, well knowingly, in his capacity as Secretary of the Interior during the government of then President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, in the company of other high officials -such as such as the Secretary of Defense, the Chief of the Presidential General Staff, the Director of Public Security, the Deputy Director and Supernumerary Delegate of that dependency and the President of the Republic himself, forged a plan to partially destroy the national group opposed to the government called the National Strike Council (CNH), made up of students and supporters of the 1968 student movement.”
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