{"id":3530,"date":"2021-01-15T13:00:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T21:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=3530"},"modified":"2021-02-05T10:03:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T18:03:28","slug":"cienfuegos-impune-impune-para-ee-uu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/cienfuegos-impune-impune-para-ee-uu\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Mexican Defense Attorney Exonerated on Drug Trafficking Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cristian Carlos. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P].<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"On this stand I said that, for Mexico, it would be unthinkable, suicidal, to do nothing<\/strong>But what the Attorney General's Office did was to summon Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda to appear,\" the minister said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, journalism in Mexico was convulsed by the exoneration of \"El Padrino\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dolia Est\u00e9vez, a Mexican journalist, exposed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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@FGRMexico<\/a> failed the anti-corruption test with the exoneration of Cienfuegos, Secretary of Defense for Pena, says @WOLA_org<\/a>. It expresses concern about the alarm signal it sends out about the pursuit of other files such as those of the thousands of missing persons. https:\/\/t.co\/8pjz39KiPW<\/a><\/p>- Dolia Est\u00e9vez (@DoliaEstevez) January 15, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote>