"Char" for Borderland Beat
This article was translated and reposted from LOS NOTICIERISTAS
WRITTEN BY: TERE PEREZ
AUGUST 22, 2024
Mexico City, Mexico - This Thursday in a 'morning' conference, the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, emphasized that it is up to the Attorney General's Office (FGR) to decide on a possible indictment of the former Attorney General of Sinaloa, Sara Bruna Quiñonez, due to the inconsistencies found in the state investigation into the murder of Héctor Melesio Cuén Ojeda.
At the National Palace AMLO was asked if Quiñones is indicted, to which the federal president responded:
“I have no information”.
“That will be up to the Attorney General's Office, they are doing the diligences and I imagine that they will call to testify all the interested parties involved”, he added.
López Obrador, considered that he cannot give opinions lightly, due to the sensitivity of the matter.
“I cannot give my opinion on this matter lightly, it is a very serious matter, since it is also common knowledge that we are under scrutiny, not by the people, fortunately the people trust us, but by the media... many of which are manipulative,” he explained.
AMLO said that now he has to 'watch his words' and be even more careful and cautious, “because everything I say is used against me, my adversaries are very angry”.
He called for trust in the Attorney General's Office and reiterated that “there is no impunity for anyone”, insisting that he has no say in the matter.
He took the opportunity to recall the case of Genaro García Luna, ex-Secretary of Security during the six-year term of Felipe Calderón, insisting that it was a period of 'narco-state'.
“They have also strangely postponed the final ruling (of García Luna's sentence), lately they said that it is going to be in October and that there will no longer be any alterations,” he commented.
“That is what there is and if everything has to be known and the Prosecutor's Office has to act,” he clarified.
On the other hand, he was asked if he thinks it would be convenient for the governor of Sinaloa, Rubén Rocha Moya, to extend his statements on this case and explain if Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada was a political operator in Sinaloa.
“That is for the Attorney General's Office to decide, but if the Attorney General's Office considers that it is important for the investigation, all citizens are obliged,” said AMLO.
The reporter insisted that if she considered it 'healthy' for Rocha Moya to expand his statements.
“Let the Attorney General's Office decide,” he answered to conclude the subject.
