NewsLatin AmericaLopez Obrador denounces that the accusations against the military for the Ayotzinapa case seek a “rebellion” in the Army

Lopez Obrador denounces that the accusations against the military for the Ayotzinapa case seek a “rebellion” in the Army

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, during a meeting with the parents of the 43 missing normalistas from Ayotzinapa, in Mexico City, in 2020.EDGARD GARRIDO (Reuters)

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador assured that in the Ayotzinapa case there are many interests and that some of them seek with the accusations of the military to generate a “rebellion” within the Army so that the investigation would be reversed and no one would be touched. “There are interests that sought to burst the investigation by talking about more people () holding 20 military officers responsible, when in the investigation there are five high-ranking officers. The other 15 I imagine are soldiers. “But, why do they include 20?”, the president asked himself during the morning of this Thursday. “Well, thinking that this was going to generate a rebellion in the Army and that we were going to back down so as not to touch anyone. No, zero corruption, zero impunity”, he replied to the journalists. “When they know that it is serious, then maybe they thought if we put 20 (military) in it, they will back down because they will not be able to face the Army,” he added.

At the end of August, the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) issued 20 arrest warrants against members of the Infantry Battalions in Guerrero, the 27th and 41st, although three weeks later it gave up arresting 16 of them.

“There are five soldiers and they are included there,” said Lopez Obrador. But Undersecretary Alejandro Encinas said 20 soldiers, corrected a journalist. “No, five, and the lawyer does not have the information or is acting in bad faith () but it is great that we are clarifying it, then, in the report there are five soldiers, but for more details I gave the instruction to the secretary of the defense in writing.

On September 25, EL PAIS revealed that the prosecution canceled at least 21 of the 83 arrest warrants for the ‘Ayotzinapa case’ that it requested in August. The documents in the possession of this newspaper evidenced the conflict between the unit commanded by prosecutor Alejandro Gertz, and the unit that investigates the massacre of the students and is in charge of issuing arrest requests. Only two days later, Omar Gomez Trejo resigned as head of the Special Investigation Unit for Ayotzinapa (UEILCA) after the Specialized Prosecutor for Regional Control, an area outside his unit, renounced 20 arrest warrants against those involved without his authorization. if.

Lopez Obrador said that Gomez Trejo did not agree with what was presented in the report. “They did not like that this was done, nor did they like the report. That’s why he raised his resignation, “he replied. The president said that the arrest warrants were issued in accordance with the report of the Truth Commission, but assured that the military were not implicated in said document. “Some of the detainees were very confident that there was going to be no action,” he added.

During the press conference, Lopez Obrador defended that former Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam has the right to defend himself, but is responsible for fabricating the so-called “historical truth” of the Iguala case. “The Prosecutor’s Office is presenting all the evidence to show that Mr. Murillo Karam, former Attorney General, was responsible for fabricating what was called the historical truth. How they distorted, changed or hid the facts of what had really happened, how they blamed other people to make statements, tortured people or how they said that they had burned the young people in the garbage dump, something that has been shown to be false, besides he take responsibility,” he said.

Regarding the role of former President Enrique Pena Nieto during that night and the subsequent investigation, Lopez Obrador said that if they want to implicate Pena Nieto in the Iguala case, they should talk to former Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam. “Those who are detained have the right to defense and everyone can speak, because they are also saying: well and why not, even my friend Epigmenio (Ibarra), and why not Pena, who accompanies Murillo Karam, so let Murillo speak . “Let him say that they gave him instructions, because in the document Pena does not appear as responsible, Murillo appears.”

Lopez Obrador also took advantage of the morning to make a passionate defense of the Undersecretary for Human Rights, Alejandro Encinas, about whom he said “there is a campaign against him.” “He has our full support and if there is a campaign against Encinas, there is a campaign against me,” he said.

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Source: EL PAIS

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