The former Mexican secretary of National Defense during the Enrique Peña Nieto administration,
General Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, was detained at the Los Angeles International Airport
, reported the current Secretary of Foreign Relations of Mexico, Marcelo Ebrard.
"I have been informed by Ambassador Christopher Landau of the United States that the former Secretary of National Defense, General Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, has been detained at the Los Angeles Airport, California," Ebrard tweeted this Thursday night.
“The Consul in Los Angeles will be informing me of the charges in the next few hours.
We will offer the consular assistance to which you are entitled.
I keep you updated, "added the chancellor on Twitter.
Cienfuegos was involved in several scandals related to human rights violations
during the Peña Nieto government.
Human rights organizations accuse that cases of extrajudicial executions and massacres, such as that of people in
Tlatlaya in 2014
, occurred because Cienfuegos ordered soldiers to "kill" criminals during military operations.
He has also been singled out for blocking investigations into the alleged involvement of the Army in the case of the 43 Ayotzinapa normalistas who disappeared in September 2014.
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