Weekly Report - 24 February 2004
MEXICO: Former DGS chief nabbed for `disappearance'
The past is beginning to catch up with those responsible for Mexico's dirty war. On 19 February the chief prosecutor's office (PGR) announced the arrest of Miguel Nazar Haro, who had been head of the Dirección General de Seguridad (DGS, secret police) in the 1970s, wanted in connection with the April 1975 `disappearance' of leftwing activist Jesús Piedra Ibarra.
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