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Mexico City  - Human rights activists denounced Friday the acquittal of former Mexican president Luis Echeverria in connection with the Tlatelolco Massacre of October 2, 1968.

Echeverria, 87, was acquitted Thursday by a federal court in connection with the killings of students who had gathered for a peaceful demonstration at a square in Mexico City while he was the country's Interior minister.

Mexico City  - On the day of Hillary Clinton's first visit to Mexico as US secretary of state, drug violence - which was sure to dominate her discussions - continued to affect life in Mexico Wednesday.

An alleged drug trafficker whose extradition had been requested by the United States was boldly abducted from a hospital by an armed gang. And officials identified a man arrested Tuesday as one of the country's most wanted drug bosses.

Mexico City - More than a dozen armed men entered a hospital in the northern Mexican city of Chihuahua on Wednesday and abducted an alleged drug trafficker whose extradition had been requested by the United States, the authorities confirmed.

The group - made up of 12-20 men, according to the authorities - entered the hospital around 4 am and took the weapons and cellphones off seven bodyguards assigned to protect the man, Chihuahua public prosecutor's office spokesman Eduardo Esparza told German Press Agency dpa.

Mexico City  - Mexican police have arrested Hector Huerta Rios, believed to be among the top 37 drug traffickers on the country's most-wanted list, the public prosecutor's office said Wednesday.

Huerta Rios, who was arrested on Tuesday, was considered the most influential person in the Beltra-Leyva drug family in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey.

His arrest was announced on the day US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in Mexico on her first visit, with the fight against drugs at the top of her agenda.