Probe targets former president as Mexico comes to terms with violent past 

Posted: 1:00 am Wed, July 3, 2002
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A special prosecutor grilled former Mexican President Luis Echeverria on possible genocide charges Tuesday — a bold step in Mexico’s campaign to come to terms with its often-violent past and to break a tradition of impunity for its former leaders. Since Mexico’s longtime ruling party was ousted in 2000, President Vicente Fox, an increasingly independent ...