World IN BRIEF : MEXICO : Drug Cop Charged in Activist’s Death
A high-ranking federal narcotics officer in Mexico who kept his command for nine months after being linked to the murder of a human-rights activist has been formally charged with her death. Officials said the federal judicial police commander, Mario Alberto Gonzalez Trevino, ordered the May, 1990, death of Norma Corona Sapien because he feared she would expose his role in a web of drug-related killings, kidnapings and corruption. The Corona case is one of several that have turned an unwelcome spotlight on Mexico’s human-rights record while that nation is trying to negotiate a free-trade accord with the United States.
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