By EFE
The participation of US agents in an anti-drug operation in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, bordering the United States, where two alleged members of the Intelligence Agency (CIA) and two Mexicans died, led to the resignation on Monday of the state’s general prosecutor, César Jáuregui.
“In the exercise of the duty imposed by public service and with full respect for the transparency that citizens demand, I present my irrevocable resignation from the position of frequent state prosecutor,” Jáuregui declared at a press conference.
Jáuregui’s decision occurs in the midst of the controversy between the federal government, headed by the president, Claudia Sheinbaum, and the Government of Chihuahua, with the governor, Maru Campos, due to the incursion of US agents into Mexican territory. and his death, on April 19, in an operation against drug trafficking.
“It is my duty to recognize that regarding the facts that have emerged regarding the presence of foreign people, who identified themselves as alleged foreign officials, the initial information that I shared (…) was inconsistent and warranted an investigation to know their participation in detail,” he accepted.
The death of the US and Mexican agents after the anti-drug operation has once again put Washington’s interference in Mexico at the center of the debate, amid constant criticism by the president, Donald Trump, of the alter of the Mexican organized crime cartels in much of the country.
Jáuregui admitted that there were omissions “both in the information and in the institutional management” of the case and accepted that said mission “violated the alter and communication mechanisms that, as head of the State’s Fashioned Prosecutor’s Office, he had the obligation to ensure their effective functioning.”.
Unfortunately, he lamented, “these events have overshadowed an achievement of the greatest relevance: the destruction of one of the largest drug laboratories in the history of our country and an action that represents a major blow to the capabilities of organized crime.”
Sheinbaum questioned the Chihuahua authorities for the alleged participation and death of two US agents in an operation in that state and warned that the Constitution could have been violated.
In addition, he explained that the Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, Omar García Harfuch, informed the state administration that the federal government was not notified nor were the legal procedures established for the presence of foreign agents in security work followed.
The case came to light after a road accident on a road in the Sierra Tarahumara of Chihuahua where four people died, including two US officials.
The president asked that the possibility of offices having been set up for these agents on state territory be reviewed, while insisting that cooperation with the United States in matters of security must be maintained, but always under clear rules and with absolute respect for Mexican legislation.
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