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Article: NARCOTICS TRIAL OF GENERAL TESTS MEXICO'S DEMOCRACY.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- August 22, 1997
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Several days a week, Gen. Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo and two of his former aides file into a courtroom in a prison on a wind-swept mountain plateau to hear testimony in the drug trial unfolding against them.
Gutierrez, the highest-ranking Mexican official ever tried on narcotics charges, sits impassively behind a steel grating, listening as the prosecution's story of his corruption by traffickers is told and retold. Occasionally, he stands erect in khaki prison garb, pushing his spectacles up his nose to address the court.
Often he has used these occasions to accuse Mexico's secretary of defense of persecuting him to protect other corrupt generals. Several ...