Alonso Urrutia and Nestor Jimenez
Newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday March 1, 2023, p. 7
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador offered a morning conference yesterday at the National Palace for former president Felipe Calderón to clarify his relationship with his Secretary of Public Security, Genaro García Luna, convicted in the United States for ties to the drug dealer.
I invite you here to come and explain your relationship with García Luna to us.
said López Obrador on Tuesday, alluding to the PAN member. If you come here we promise that there will be no questions, just give your testimony
he added. “And why do we say that here? Because he was president ‘has been as it has been’. It is not to brag, but this conference is seen by many”.
Wait sentence in NY
Asked if he would take legal action against Calderón and also former president Vicente Fox, he asked to wait for the sentence in New York against García Luna and the possibility that the former official testify and give information on how he related to his bosses. He recalled that Calderón offered that, if García Luna was found guilty, he would make his position known.
He also questioned the former PAN leader about his role in the operation Fast and Furious, An agreement was made between the governments of Mexico and the United States to send weapons from there and follow the trail, but it was unsuccessful.
“The level of naivety and ineptitude is incredible. In a narco-State, where all the institutions were infiltrated, weren’t the criminals going to find out that the weapons had sensors?” And he threw: the president what? Didn’t know either?
