Hernán Bermúdez Requena, today a fugitive from justice and sought by the Interpol accused of being part of the Criminal Group of the Barredora, was the former Secretary of Citizen Security and Protection of Tabasco from 2018 to 2024, during the first government of Morena in the State.
For 33 years and by intervals, he had headed security tasks, but was raised as secretary by the then governor of Tabasco, the morenista Adam Augusto López; Today the exponential growth of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG) is attributed to the entity and of what was its criminal cell La Barredora, before both groups entered violent dispute.
Bermúdez Requena is located as “Commander H” of the Barredora group already blames 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.
However, Bermúdez Requena relationship with organized crime is not new, it was known since 2022, and still remained a year and a half as responsible for state security.
The revelations about their background occurred in October 2022, when the collective known as Guacamaya hacked and leaked millions of documents from the National Defense Secretariat (Sedena).
It was known since more than ten military reports located Bermúdez Requena as a member of the CJNG in the state.
However, a few days later, on October 14, 2022, López Hernández, who placed him in that position, but by then he was already secretary of the Interior, minimized the revelations, which he considered “fantasies” and “saying leaks” against Bermúdez.
Former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador considered that the accusations against López Hernández, who placed Bermúdez, were part of the attacks of “the conservatives.”
On the contrary, at the end of 2024, Javier May, governor of Tabasco, and also from Morena, criticized his predecessors- López Hernández and Carlos Merino Campos, interim- for having kept him in office, being that his relationship with organized crime was public.
It was until February 14, 2024 that an apprehension order against Bermúdez Requena was turned, but that did not detonate his flight from the country, which happened until January of this year, as revealed last Friday in an interview with radiophonic interview Miguel Ángel López Martínez, commander of the 30 Military Zone.
