Cristian Carlos. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P].
The former head of Mexico's National Defense Secretariat, General Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, was acquitted Thursday of the crimes that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) charged him with for links to drug trafficking, which detained him at the airport in Los Angeles, California, on October 15, 2020.
In Mexico, the Attorney General's Office determined that it would not proceed criminally against General Cienfuegos, who would be charged by the New York court with collaborating with the Sinaloa cartel and who sentenced Joaquin Guzman Loera, "El Chapo".
This morning, Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said at a press conference that although the Mexican prosecutor's office did not find elements to sentence him, according to U.S. records, a legal process will take place. And that the arbitrary fabrication of crimes will not be allowed.
Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said that for the good relationship of both countries, they should trust the evidence presented by the U.S. authorities in charge of referring the former head of the headquarters to Mexico.
"On this stand I said that, for Mexico, it would be unthinkable, suicidal, to do nothingBut what the Attorney General's Office did was to summon Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda to appear," the minister said.
Meanwhile, journalism in Mexico was convulsed by the exoneration of "El Padrino".
Dolia Estévez, a Mexican journalist, exposed:
Anabel Hernández, a woman journalist who is known in Mexico for her investigative journalism work on Mexican political figures related to drug trafficking, as well as crimes committed by the Mexican State, declared a few months ago that the Mexican Government, specifically President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has been a victim in the outcome of Cienfuegos' exoneration.
On the other hand, Julio Astillero, a Mexican journalist, writer and lawyer pointed out what was said by Vice News reporter Keegan Hamilton, where he refers to the fact that the U.S. Department of Justice could change its mind if the Mexican government fails to proceed with the Cienfuegos case:
