Mexico Ex-President May Avoid Massacre Trial

A Mexican judge issued an injunction on Thursday that could prevent former President Luis Echeverria from facing trial for his alleged role in a 1968 massacre of leftist students.

Echeverria, 85, has been under house arrest since late last year after a Mexican court ordered him to be tried over the so-called Tlatelolco massacre.

Echeverria's lawyer Juan Velasquez told Reuters a federal judge had granted him a type of injunction commonly used in Mexico on the grounds that there was no case against him. The prosecuting judge has 10 days to appeal.