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The former Secretary of Public Security of Guerrero is arrested for the disappearance of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa

2022-10-31T12:47:20.156Z


Local media point to the alleged link between Leonardo Octavio Vázquez Pérez and the Guerreros Unidos cartel, involved in the case of the disappeared youths in 2014.


By Associated Press

The former Secretary of Public Security of the state of Guerrero, Leonardo Octavio Vázquez Pérez, was arrested for his alleged connection to the disappearance in 2014 of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa, the government reported on Sunday.

The arrest comes after the controversy that arose after the special prosecutor of the process resigned due to discrepancies with the authorities over the handling of the case, the cancellation of some arrest warrants for those allegedly involved, and the leak to the press of the report of a government commission.

Family and friends demonstrate in Mexico City to demand justice for the 43 missing normalistas, on August 26, 2022. Marco Ugarte / AP

Vázquez Pérez, who is considered a key player in the case, was arrested on Thursday, October 27, in the city of Tepic, the capital of the state of Nayarit, according to the National Detention Registry.

Local media indicated that his testimony will be key in the investigation of his alleged relations with the Guerreros Unidos cartel, which is involved in the case of the disappeared youths.

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The general coordinator of Social Communication of the Presidency, Jesús Ramírez Cuevas, confirmed the arrest and that the investigations continue around the case, capturing public officials who were involved in the disappearance of the 43 students between September 26 and 27, 2014. in the town of Iguala, in Guerrero.

“We are committed to truth, justice and reparation for damage.

There will be no impunity,” said Ramírez Cuevas on his Twitter social network account.

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The same Thursday, Rodolfo Nava Ortiz, a former police officer from the municipality of Huitzuco, was also arrested, whom local media related to the case.

In the last two months, four people have been arrested, including three soldiers, for their alleged involvement in the disappearance of the students.

One of the most important arrests was that of former prosecutor Jesús Murillo Karam, who in August was linked to trial for the crimes of forced disappearance, torture and against the administration of justice.

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In mid-September, retired General José Rodríguez Pérez, who was the commander of the 27th Infantry Battalion of Iguala, was also arrested and faces charges of organized crime.

The undersecretary of the Interior and president of the Truth Commission, Alejandro Encinas, pointed him out as the alleged person responsible for the disappearance of six of the 43 students.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador came out last week in defense of Encinas after the publication of a report that questioned part of the evidence that was used in the report that the Truth Commission presented in August.

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The report offered clues about those allegedly involved both in the disappearance of the students —including some soldiers— and in the cover-up of the events, in which senior officials of the government of former President Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018) would have participated.

López Obrador affirmed that the Special Investigation Unit of the case in the Attorney General's Office tried to affect the investigation, and that those responsible were added without taking into account the report of the government commission.

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The special prosecutor in the case, Omar Gómez Trejo, resigned in September after it became known that 21 of the 83 arrest warrants issued a month earlier had been cancelled, at the request of the Attorney General's Office.

Among the beneficiaries of this decision were 16 soldiers and former officials.

Local media pointed out that the process followed by the Attorney General's Office to arrest Murillo Karam, which was carried out without consulting Gómez Trejo, was another of the events that led the prosecutor to resign.

Source: telemundo

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