Senator Rosario Ibarra sent a formal letter to Mexico's new attorney general, Marisela Morales Ibáñez, demanding that former president Luis Echeverría Álvare be called in to testify in regards to the disappearance of her son Jesús Piedra Ibarra, 36 years ago.
While Echeverría was earlier tried for his role as interior minister during the Tlatelolco massacre, he was acquitted. Yet as Ibarra argues, there are no statutes of limitation on the forced disappearances of people, and that Echeverría, who was president 1970-76 and eventually ran the economy into the ditch, can thus be tried for crimes against humanity.
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