From the special prosecutor’s office an attempt was made to blow up the investigation of the 43: AMLO

Alonso Urrutia and Emir Olivares

Newspaper La Jornada
Friday, October 28, 2022, p. 4

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador supported the management in the Ayotzinapa case of the Undersecretary for Human Rights of the Ministry of the Interior, Alejandro Encinas, whom he said has faced vested interests associated with the old regime.

He confirmed that after the presentation of the report on the 2014 attack in Iguala, Guerrero, against the normalistas, the reactions were exacerbated and within the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office there were attempts to dynamite the investigation.

At Wednesday’s conference, the president stated that since the report was released last August, suspicions arose about the direction of the investigations: I maintain that they wanted to blow up our investigation so that we would not act.

-These arrest warrants were presented by prosecutor Omar Gómez Trejo. Was he the one who tried to dynamite?

–No, others. It is that there are many. This is a regime that is not yet dead. It is a process of transition, the old does not finish dying and the new does not finish being born. So much so that they have murdered many witnesses or people linked to the case.

López Obrador identified the New York Times (NYT) as part of vested interests; He pointed out that the note published yesterday by the newspaper now even involved espionage: “the New York Times involved in this, helping torturers, supporting and protecting those who tolerated State crimes. What journalism is that? Where is the justice?

At the conference, Encinas faced the disqualifications of his management, which now include those of the American newspaper. He summed up the difficulties of the assignment, the most complex he has ever had: They said that he was even a member of the (guerrilla) Liga 23 de Septiembre when he was studying at the Faculty of Economics. You don’t have to lie so much.

He explained that in the case of the normalistas he had to face inertia, resistance and obstacles of the old regime to break the vicious circle and open the investigation; They leaked videos, documents and even the untested report, with the aim of hindering the work and alerting those responsible. A campaign of disqualifications to the report, to our people, intimidation; requests for amparo against the report and threat of criminal complaint lawyers. Let’s go to espionage. Now what next? Well whatever, we’re not going back.

He justified his actions and referred to the audio leak of a conversation he had earlier this year in Israel with the former head of the investigation of the case of the 43, Tomás Zerón, now a fugitive from justice based in that nation. The version of the meeting is part of the note of the New York Times.

Encinas affirmed that he agreed with the parents of the normalistas that if Zerón’s extradition was complicated, the authorities would seek an agreement so that the former police chief would provide information in exchange for accessing the criterion of opportunity.

He revealed that he made the contact through Zerón’s lawyers, who rejected the proposal.

The federal official showed a conversation in telephone messages that allowed the involvement of those responsible for the events of 2014, and assured that there are other elements that support the veracity of that conversation, which includes a military man.

He also mentioned that he maintains contact with members of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts to define a route that allows cross-checking all the current information in the file.

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López Obrador described as an official copy to Encinas, of whom now “until New York Times question his performance.”

Regarding the audio of the conversation, he pointed out that whatever it was, Zeron or Israeli authorities, agenciesthis led to a journalism that thrives on espionage.

To a question about the parents’ questions about the consequences of presenting the report, he said that their behavior has been adequate. He acknowledged that they have suffered a lot throughout the entire investigation, so his claim is that progress be made and the investigations not be diverted. We have the trust of parents because, in addition, It is a matter of convictions and we must clarify this.

He argued that some sectors in Mexico did not think that the investigation would advance to the point of finding responsibilities, including officials and the military, for which they considered that the leak of the report would stop the investigation.

They never imagined that we would get to where we have come; They thought there would be impunity. I can put it another way: if (José Antonio) Meade or (Ricardo) Anaya (both former presidential candidates) had won, they would have shelved it.

He commented that his government requested collaboration from the United States, through Vice President Kamala Harris, in order to have access to court records of an arrest in Chicago, where there is information on the Ayotzinapa case, and that an investigation could be integrated on that basis. .