President Andrés Manuel López Obrador acknowledged that the Report on the Ayotzinapa case released last August 19, where twenty soldiers -two of them generals- were linked to the disappearance and murder of the 43 normalistas from the school in Iguala eight years ago, it was reviewed by him and authorized for dissemination. He implicitly approved the request for arrest warrants against all of them. That same day, the Attorney General announced that he had asked the judge for 83 arrest warrants, including the military. five weeks later, only four were completed. Why? Because, said the president, they did not appear in the Report.
It’s a lie. For obvious reasons, the document did not include the list of people on whom the arrest warrant would be requested, because that corresponded to the Public Ministry, not to the presidential commission headed by the Undersecretary of the Interior, Alexander Encinas. However, based on what the Report indicated, Encinas asked the Prosecutor’s Office to request them. The cancellation of practically all of them could not be clearly explained by the president, who, it could be said, hummed. The proclivity to propaganda rather than verified and verifiable facts, taken to levels never seen by a president, has become a boomerang for the government itself.
Encinas had raised expectations that they would do so, aligned with the narrative that this government does do things that the previous one did not. But until now, outside of political discourse, the things that are being done are repeating violations of the law such as the ones charged to Thomas Zeron, the former head of the Criminal Investigation Agency who Encinas thinks is key to fully solving the case. In his obsession with blaming the Army for the murder of the normalistas that justifies his description of a “state crime”, Encinas is committing illegal acts.
The first verifiable one was in August 2020, when due to the efforts of the undersecretary, Eliseo Villar Castillo, who was a leader of the Regional Coordinator of Community Authorities-Community Police when the normalistas disappeared, he was irregularly transferred from a prison in Chilpancingo, to one in Morelos. , to help him in the Ayotzinapa Case. Villar Castillo, was imprisoned in Chilpancingo since 2015 for robbery and kidnapping, and in 2019 he stated that he had key information about the fate of the normalistas. Three days after making that statement, he was moved from jail. Encinas justified the change, minimizing the irregularity or illegality, because he had provided information on the whereabouts of the disappeared normalistas in Iguala.
Until today, this information has not given tangible results that are known. However, the modus operandi of Encinas was similar to one of the paradigmatic moments of the investigation of former prosecutor Jesús Murillo Karam, on October 27, 2014, when Zerón illegally removed Agustín García Reyes from the PGR facilities. , El Chereje, Guerreros Unidos thug who participated in the crime, to take him to Cocula and tell him where the garbage dump was where, according to an “anonymous” caller the day before, the normalistas had been murdered and incinerated. Encinas acted like Zerón Zerón at the time, usurping the functions of the public ministry.
A week ago, the constitutional violations incurred by the undersecretary were referred to in this space, putting the entire investigation of the Ayotzinapa Case at risk. But Encinas has gone much further than all: he violated state secrets, allying himself with foreigners, which could be classified as treason against the country, documented in the latest report of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the GIEI, last March, when they released a video recorded by a Navy drone on October 27, 2014, which, they said, shows that the marines tampered with the Cocula dump, where it was presumed that the normalistas had been incinerated a month earlier . That video was delivered by the Secretary Admiral of the Navy, Rafael Ojeda, by presidential instructions derived from the management of Encinas, and at the request of the GIEI.
The dissemination of the video by the GIEI showed two crimes. The first of a legal nature, which is not minor, since the dissemination of this material was done behind the back of the Attorney General’s Office, which was not aware of what Encinas did. When the undersecretary did it, he held public ministry functions, for which one piece of evidence for the case was contaminated. Encinas broke the chain of custody of the material, which is another crime. He and whoever officially received the video broke the law. In the national security chapter, the undersecretary violated state secrets by disseminating it and delivering it to a foreign entity.
In this space, it was published in March what was the reason why that drone was used, which is part of a secret program of the Naval Intelligence Unit of the Secretary of the Navy, which speaks of the Arcturus T-20 Group, which made the recording. “Arcturus” is a naval intelligence program of unmanned aircraft, and was considered one of the best kept secrets, because it is a tool that saves lives. The secret was revealed on page 21 of the GIEI report.
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Encinas seems not to have realized yet the trouble he is in. The GIEI yes. In August he asked the Mexican government for full immunity – including from personal arrest or detention – as a condition for resuming investigations of the Ayotzinapa Case. It is not known if they gave it to him, because everything is possible in this government. The unconditional support of President López Obrador for Encinas last Friday and yesterday is demonstrated by him. What matters the law; what counts is the narrative. What does it matter to sacrifice whoever it is, if he is the one who is saved. However, the administration of expectations got into a highly turbulent space, where the illegalities of Encinas leave the president in trouble.
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