Gustavo Castillo García
La Jornada newspaper
Saturday, September 13, 2025, p. 3
The head of the Ministry of Citizen Security and Protection (SSPC), Omar García Harfuch, informed that he was arrested in Paraguay and was already transferred to Mexico Hernán Bermúdez Requena, former secretary of Public Security of Tabasco and leader of the criminal organization known as The barredoradedicated to extortion and trafficking activities of people and drugs.
Bermúdez Requena has an arrest warrant granted in February of this year for the crimes of criminal association, extortion and express kidnapping, in the state of Tabasco.
Through his account in X, García Harfuch announced: “On the instructions of the president @Claudiashein From zero tolerance to corruption, a joint operation was carried out by the National Intelligence Center CNI, @Defensamx1, @Semar_mx, @Fgrmexico, @Gn_mexico_, @SSPCMEXICOin which the arrest was made. ”
García Harfuch said that “in this operation the participation of the Financial Intelligence Unit and the National Intelligence Center, as well as the exchange of information that makes possible the new Law of the National Research and Intelligence System,” and thanked the collaboration and support of the authorities of the Republic of Paraguay.
Bermúdez Requena fled the country after in February of this year an arrest warrant against him was released and he was disseminated that he was the leader of The barredorawhich was released in July by General Miguel Ángel López Martínez, commander of the 30 Military Zone.
According to the background of the case, The barredora It was led by Bermúdez Requena at the same time that he served as Secretary of Public Security in Tabasco, a position in which he was appointed on December 11, 2019 by the then governor and current Senator Adam Augusto López Hernández.
Once the criminal activities of Hernán Bermúdez, the also coordinator of the Morena bench in the Senate and former secretary of the Interior in the previous six -year term were announced in a radifonic interview on July 21: “The truth, I did not suspect, if I had suspected it because we would immediately have separated it from the commission. We saw each other every day, because we went to the security table and He and the other authorities. ”
Federal government investigations have established that The barredora It was divided into at least two groups in 2024 when Bermúdez Requena would have ordered that one of its main accomplices be executed so as not to lose control of the group that operates in the states of Tabasco and Chiapas.
In that context, currently Ulises Pinto Madera, THE MOTHERand considered the second in command of The barredoraafter being arrested in Jalisco last August he became a collaborator witness of the Prosecutor’s Office Specialized in Organized Crime.
Last night, the Security Cabinet, composed of the Secretariats of Security and Citizen Protection, of the National Defense, Marina-Armada of Mexico, as well as the intelligence areas of the Mexican Government and the Financial Intelligence Unit, reported the apprehension of Bermúdez Requena with the collaboration of the South American country.
They pointed out that the Paraguayan collaboration allowed to establish the location of Bermúdez Requena in that country and “the necessary actions were implemented to carry out its arrest and transfer to national territory, where it has been available to the corresponding authorities”.
For now, it was not announced if it was transferred to a Federal Center for Social Readaptation or a prison in Tabasco, where a judge fought an arrest warrant for the crimes of criminal association, extortion and express kidnapping.
