MEXICO CITY, MEXICO.- The day after, Mexico angered US authorities by publishing the 751-page lawsuit against former Mexican Secretary of Defense Salvador CienfuegosThe Mexican prosecutors who acquitted him published their own version, although so many pages had been crossed out that it was almost impossible to know what they had discovered.
The report published by the Mexican Attorney General on Sunday contains a piece of 226 pages in full strikethrough, followed shortly after by another 275 pages.
In the few fragments with less edited text, all names and images were crossed out.
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Authorities seemed to be struggling to contain the damage to the reputation of the judiciary after it took prosecutors just five days to fully acquit retired General Cienfuegos of the allegations made in the United States, backed by years of research that the military helped drug traffickers in exchange for bribes.
President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, On Saturday, he took away the credibility of the US investigation, and his administration published the US prosecutor’s documentation, which was sent to Mexico when Cienfuegos was handed over as a diplomatic concession to the neighboring country to be investigated in their country.
The United States Department of Justice said the full disclosure of the evidence violated a legal aid treaty and raised doubts as to whether the United States could continue to share information with Mexico.
That added tension to the security relations between the two sides following the government’s decision to restrict the activities of US agents and revoke their immunity, even after Cienfuegos was returned to his country and not in the United States. tried.
López Obrador pointed out that while many Mexicans view the American courts as impeccable institutions, those responsible for this investigation have worked unprofessional.
The visible excerpts of the new report published in Mexico seemed to allude to requests to the military to investigate the credibility of the allegations and included the revenues that Cienfuegos had reported.
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For example, one of the few legible documents was a report from a military communications officer. The officer, whose name is crossed out, says that no Army BlackBerry devices have been officially assigned to Cienfuegos or anyone else.
The 751-page document that the US authorities shared with Mexico consists largely of intercepted BlackBerry messages in which deceased merchants described dealing with a person often nicknamed “The Godfather”, referred to by investigators as Cienfuegos.
López Obrador relies heavily on the military for a number of projects beyond security, and his administration appeared to have responded to military outrage over the arrest of Cienfuegos, claiming that US authorities had not sufficiently reported the matter in advance.
Cienfuegos was detained in Los Angeles in October, but the US government dropped its charges against him in November after Mexican authorities threatened to restrict the activities of US agents.
The published US documents contain an alleged intercepted conversation between the leader of the H-2 cartel, based in the peaceful state of Nayarit, and a lieutenant who reportedly served as a liaison with the general.
In a text message, Daniel Silva-Gárate told his boss, Juan Francisco Patrón Sánchez, that several men with military-style hairstyles had taken him to the headquarters of Defense in Mexico City to meet with “The Godfather.”
Silva-Gárate told his boss that “The Godfather” had told him they would do great things to him.
Patron Sánchez said he wanted to operate without hassle on the sea routes to transport drugs from Colombia, and his lieutenant replied that his interlocutor stated that while there, the capo would be “free” and that “they will never perform strong operations” . regarding raids by the authorities.
“May you sleep peacefully,” adds Silva-Gárate to his boss about “The Godfather’s” comment.
Other conversations described alleged offers by the Godfather to organize a ship to carry drugs and to introduce the traffickers to other officials. He also acknowledged that he has helped other human traffickers in the past.