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 News from Around the Americas | October 2007 
Mexican Fugitive in B.C. Gets Court Reprieve
 Edmonton Journal
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Vancouver - A Mexican union leader living in exile in Vancouver is one step closer to returning home, thanks to a court ruling in Mexico.
Napoleon Gomez Urrutia, 61, a miners' union boss has won a court order that protects him from arrest should he return home.
The man flet to Vancouver in March 2006 with his family, after being accused of masterminding a $55-million money-laundering scheme involving workers' funds.
The Oxford-educated union boss demanded an investigation into the deaths of 65 workers in a coal-mine explosion he called "industrial homicide."
The Mexican government responded in February 2006 by ousting Gomez Urrutia as president of the National Mine and Metalworkers Union, which has 280,000 members.
A court ruling in April ordered the reinstatement of Gomez Urrutia to the top post of the miners union. |
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