Who is Hernán Bermúdez Requena?
For decades and by intervals, Raquena was in charge of security tasks at the state level, but was raised as secretary to the government of the Morenista Adam Augusto López, who later left to be part of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s cabinet.
Raquena is attributed the exponential growth of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG) in Tabasco and from which it was its criminal cell ” La Barredora ”, before both groups entered violent dispute.
He is also attributed to the growth of extortion, huachicoleo and drug trafficking, which led some cities of the State to be placed in 2024 among the first places of insecurity nationwide.
His criminal ties were revealed in October 2022, when the collective known as Guacamaya hacked and leaked millions of documents from the Ministry of National Defense (Sedena).
Hernán Bermúdez Requena (left) arrived at the Ministry of Public Security during the government of Adam Augusto López Hernández (Center).
Since then it was learned that more than ten military reports located Bermúdez Requena as a member of the CJNG in the state. However, López Hernández, who placed him in that position and by then he was already secretary of the Interior, minimized the revelations, which he considered “fantasies” and “said leaks.”
The then President Andrés Manuel López Obrador considered that the accusations against López Hernández for putting Bermúdez at the head of security were part of the attacks of “the conservatives.”
On the contrary, at the end of 2024, Javier May, current governor of Tabasco, and also from Morena, criticized his predecessors- López Hernández and Carlos Merino Campos, interim- for having kept him in office, since his relationship with organized crime was public.
It was until February 14, 2024 that the arrest warrant against Bermúdez Requena was turned, Miguel Ángel López Martínez, commander of the 30 Military Zone, revealed.
Hernán Bermúdez Requena resigned from the position of Secretary of Security of Tabasco in January 2024 and, at the end of that year, was accused by the state governor of alleged links with criminal groups.
