“Thanks to the journalists and civil society, who without knowing me, have supported me and my family. I am certain that without you, the Attorney General of the Republic, Alejandro Gertz ManeroI would have been buried forever in jail with a crime that he fabricated,” said Alejandra Cuevas.
“From now on I want to communicate my interest in being received by the head of state, Andrés Manuel López Obrador,” she explained.
The case of Alejandra Cuevas
On October 16, 2020, Cuevas was arrested, accused of intentional homicide due to omission of assistance to the detriment of Federico Gertz Manero, brother of the current Attorney General of the Republic, despite the fact that he had an appeal against any order of protection. apprehension.
His mother, Laura Morán Servín, Federico’s partner for more than 50 years, was also accused of the same crime.
On January 19, 2019, Alejandro Gertz Manero was elected head of the FGR, a body that in 2014 underwent a reform to become an autonomous body.
At the age of 80, Alejandro Gertz Manero became the first prosecutor of a separate government body. One of his first actions was to present a diagnosis of how the PGR ended its days. He himself announced that the agency’s level of impunity exceeded 90%, with 300,000 open files and more than 21,000 unfulfilled arrest warrants.
But in 2019, not only the structure of Mexican law enforcement changed. The case of Alejandra Cuevas Morán also: the lawsuit filed by Alejandro Gertz Manero against her, in 2015, prospered.