AMLO asks to reveal the names of the public servants involved in Ayotzinapa

Emir Olivares and Arturo Sanchez

Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday September 24, 2022, p. 4

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador stressed the importance of revealing the names of the public servants involved in the crimes against the Ayotzinapa normalistas. This is not just a legal matter, it is a matter of justice, it is a political matter and it is a matter of State.

In addition, he called on the soldiers who have been detained in the Ayotzinapa case to contribute new elements to clarify the facts and asserted that not because some soldiers and officers act in a criminal manner can stain the entire institution, it is affected if not all those who participated are punished.

Questioned in the morning about the night of Iguala -which will be eight years old on Monday- he instructed the president of the Commission for Truth and Access to Justice (Covaj), Alejandro Encinas, to negotiate with the Judiciary that the list be allowed to be published, which for now is tested to take care of due process.

Immediately, Encinas went to the Treasury room of the National Palace and, at the end of the president’s press conference, offered a conference to give details of the investigations and the status of the inquiries.

He stressed that he will attend to the presidential instruction to request that the Judiciary allow the names of the 46 public servants, civil and military, located in the report and against whom arrest warrants have been requested for their alleged responsibility in those crimes to be made known, and in the construction of the historical truth.

However, he added, “I anticipate what the answer will be: ‘no’. But we are going to defend the principle of maximum publicity, because in terms of human rights it is a principle that must govern”.

Referring to the case, López Obrador considered that these names should also be given to the relatives of the normalistas. Perhaps that is what is leading to the distrust of parents and the defense attorneys of the case..

Encinas clarified that since the Covaj report was presented, the mothers and fathers of the students, as well as the organizations that have accompanied them, have met them. Hence, she asked them for a vote of confidence: This research will continue and go deep, opening the entire spectrum of information that we are still developing and systematizing..

Israeli Collaboration

Both indicated that the Israeli government has been willing to collaborate in the extradition of Tomás Zerón de Lucio, former head of the Criminal Investigation Agency and a fugitive from justice.

I myself wrote a letter to the Prime Minister of Israel asking for his collaboration and the response I received was favorable in the sense that they are going to help, and they are doing so, nothing more than processesconfided the president.

Encinas pointed out that both the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) and the Foreign Ministry have carried out the corresponding steps, in addition to the fact that the Israeli embassy in Mexico has been contributing favorably for this to happen.

They also criticized the actions of the judges who have acquitted those responsible and called for there to be no acts of violence generated by probable infiltrators in the demonstrations that will take place next week as part of the global action for Ayotzinapa, on the eighth anniversary of the events. that occurred in Iguala, Guerrero, between the night of September 26 and the morning of September 27, 2014, and subsequent days.

The President ruled out that there is information about a possible responsibility in this matter of the former Minister of Defense Salvador Cienfuegos.

At the same time, he attacked Judge Samuel Ventura Ramos, who has issued acquittals in favor of 121 involved in the crimes. It all has to do with supposed due process. (He argues) failures in the integration of the files presented by the Public Ministry, that is, form, not substance. Why is the procedure not restored? What doesn’t it have to do with justice? Who named it? Why is the Ayotzinapa case, which has to do with Guerrero, handled by a judge in Tamaulipas?

Encinas, also Undersecretary for Human Rights of the Ministry of the Interior, remarked that the FGR, in particular the Special Investigation and Litigation Unit for the Ayotzinapa case, headed by Omar Trejo Gómez, has elements to strengthen the investigations against those responsible.

The foregoing, to avoid poor integration of the files, as happened with the processes of the extinct Attorney General’s Office, in the past administration, which have given guidelines for several judges to acquit those involved.

Likewise, he ruled out a break with Trejo Gómez. He only deserves respect and recognition, he has done a splendid job, we have never had any differences, we have worked hand in hand, in a relationship of trust and I reiterate my respect and recognition for the work he has been developing.