Ending decades of stonewalling, the Mexican government...

Ending decades of stonewalling, the Mexican government acknowledged that at least 74 officials from 37 government agencies were involved in a campaign of disappearances, torture and executions of leftists in the 1970s and 1980s.
"We are changing the way power is exercised in Mexico," President Vicente Fox said at a news conference, standing with the attorney general, the head of the military and the interior minister. Soldiers, police officers and security agents working for their institutions under previous governments were said in the report by the National Human Rights Commission to be implicated in the crimes.
The report was a landmark for Mexico, whose government officials have consistently denied and covered up the fact that soldiers and police waged a dirty war that resulted in the illegal detention, torture and execution of hundreds of anti-government activists during 71 years of unbroken rule under the Institutional Revolutionary Party that preceded Fox's election in December 2000.