Echeverría was indicted for his role in a genocide of student protestors two years before he was appointed president in 1970.
Luis Echeverría, a polarizing Mexican political figure who served as president from 1970 to 1976, has died at 100, according to current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Echeverría, secretary of interior at the time, was indicted and later acquitted for his role in the deaths of student protestors in Tlatelolco months before the October 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games—30 were proclaimed dead by the government, but witnesses said the death count was closer to 300,reported.
He continually denied that he ordered soldiers to shoot the peaceful protestors and was acquitted in 2007. Echeverría was appointed president by the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, but his term was marked by economic crisis, taking foreign debt from $3.5 billion to more than $20 billion. After his presidency, Echevarría didn’t make too much noise, serving as Mexico’s ambassador to Australia and a representative to UNESCO.
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