New information has begun to transcend of the case that the Justice Department from USA against General Salvador Cienfuegosthe former Secretary of Defense who was arrested in The Angels in October 2020 at the request of the DEAand which caused a rupture, still unresolved, in the cooperation with Mexico on safety matter. Recent details of the investigation into the DEA against the general explain part of the reasons why, almost a month after the capture, the Justice Department He withdrew the accusations that he was linked to drug traffickers, and released the general. Many of them were absurd, where perhaps the most insane thing was that Cienfuegos was preparing a coup. and asked for resources from drug trafficking to finance it.
The decision in Washington It wasn’t just because of the Mexican reaction. It can be argued that the case was built on pillars of mud, with unsustainable evidence because of how incredible they contained. In a letter from the interim administrator of the Justice DepartmentTimothy Sheaalong with thousands of intercepted messages, photographs and screenshots, which he sent to the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Marcelo Ebrard, recognized that the DEA had not directly investigated Hundred fires as a goal”major”, but was pointed out by two drug traffickers, Juan Francisco Patrón Sánchez, the H-2and his lieutenant, David Silva Garate, the H-9. The DEAhowever, gave those criminals credit, despite the inconceivability of their claims.
Shea accompanied his letter of October 29, 2020, with the document of the evidence that DEA he said he had against Hundred fires. The file is 745 pages, where there are thousands of messages of blackberry Come in Patron Sánchez and Silva Gárate between 2015 and 2017, from where the accusation against the general of drug trafficking, money laundering and protection of that organization that arose from the ruins of the cartel of the brothers Beltran Leyva, in exchange for bribes.
In one of the screenshotson January 4, 2017, “Zepeda“, that DEA identified from his witnesses as General Hundred fireswhose maternal surname is Zepedasent a message to “Superman”, one of several synonyms used by the organization’s leaders’ subordinates, which read: “I want your uncle to be a ghost in 15 days, so that he does not show himself to anyone as long as I get out of this the town is going to carry out a coup and I will carry out all that scandal but I take care that he supports me With 2 things for tomorrow I occupy 10 or with what his uncle can to move some things for him that suits him in Sinaloa “.
“Uncle” was the H-2, was shot down by the Marine in Tepicthe capital of Nayarit, on February 10, 2017, and what “Zepeda“There were two million pesos to complete the 10 million pesos that he said he would use for the coup.
The message continued:
“Superman”: But from today or after 15 days.
“Zepeda”: If from today it is because we are not going to take up arms and because of some details that they are suggesting but I am not alarmed by anything that I cannot solve, we are going to scrub that precedent and the Sinaloa thing tell him that he is walking to support me for my cause and so tito to finish the last details of it.
“Superman”, Seven minutes after receiving the message: Let’s see how much he says tomorrow and that in 8 days he will get something else.
“Zepeda”: That the person support me will only be until tomorrow at 6 in the morning boy make a revolution and something good will come of this and do not give money to any of my friends because it is the same cause tell them that I already took away for the cause They are going to understand or they want me to talk so that I don’t bother them.
The DEA gave him credibility full to the criminals to impute to the general of Hundred firesas he did before the district court This in Brooklynbut when he found out that the Secretary of Defense was preparing a coup State in Mexico, it did not seem relevant to him, nor did he do anything about it. The attitude of the DEA. The one that the boss of the Armed forces is plotting to overthrow a legally constituted government that shares 3,200 kilometers of common border with USAwith whom it has interconnected economies, did not generate any alert.
None of this was reported by the DEA to their superiors in Justice Department, so the Department of Statewas left in the dark, unable to search for corroborating information in the Embassy in Mexicoor the intelligence services. The White House, therefore, he was also unaware of what the DEA in the chats.
Because of the behavior of the DEA, a subject of National security for USAwith profound implications for the bilateral relationship and with a potential for instability in border cities in the face of desperate massive flows – which is what happens in hit of State-was sidelined by an investigation they thought was leading them directly to the Secretary of Defense.
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But if the chats are read, With spelling mistakes, without grammar and sometimes even illogical ideas, it is inconceivable that the drug traffickers believed that General Cienfuegos was the author of the messages. The DEA nor did he consider, as has been said in previous columns, that it was improbable that the secretary of defense had as a link minor criminals in the criminal structure.
The DEA confirmed in this case, the weakness of their investigations and the unscrupulous use of their witnesses, where the important thing is not the truth, but that they say what fits their prejudices and interests.
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