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They arrested the former prosecutor who took the CIA up into the mountains. He is charged with letting it in. He fell for betraying it.
The story is who tipped them off, who betrayed them, who still runs the prisons, and how many U.S. agencies already operate in Mexico without anyone telling you.
Four men went up into the mountains to destroy a drug lab.
They came down dead.
Six months later, they jail the prosecutor who sent them up there. Not for taking them. For betraying them.
Not revenge, not the mayor's race, not Morena explains why the warrant comes now, six months after El Pinal, or why it comes with Zuany's name next to his.
Why does the warrant come six months later?
What really happened, and what don't they want you to know?
From April 17, when the operation went up to El Pinal, to October 17, when they arrested the former prosecutor. Six months to decide whom to punish.
On October 17, police in the city of Chihuahua arrested César Jáuregui Moreno, the state's former attorney general.
The warrant came from Chihuahua's Superior Court of Justice. It names him and Guillermo Arturo Zuany Portillo, his prosecutor for Strategic Operations. The charges reported: unlawful exercise of public office and collusion among officials.
That same afternoon, during a recess in the hearing, Mexico's federal Attorney General's Office (FGR) arrived with a second warrant, issued by a federal judge: treason in matters of national security. The Federal Criminal Code punishes it with 5 to 40 years in prison.
Ernestina Godoy, head of the FGR, announced it on video that night. She said the operation was "an attack on the federal pact and the separation of powers" and that it "undermines the sovereignty and integrity of the nation". According to the FGR, Jáuregui allegedly ordered and coordinated the operation, there was no open case file on the lab, the state did not notify the federal government but did notify foreigners, and the two Americans visited the State Investigation Agency several times without justification. More than a hundred investigative steps, she said.
There is only one case file: the April 17 to 19 operation against a drug lab in the El Pinal mountains, in the municipality of Morelos, Chihuahua. State police, soldiers and four men identified as CIA agents went up. On the way back, the vehicle went into a ravine near Guachochi. The dead: the director of the State Investigation Agency, Pedro Román Oseguera Cervantes, agent Manuel Genaro Méndez Montes, and two Americans.
Jáuregui resigned on April 27. He accepted "political responsibility". Before his arrest he recorded a video: he would order the same operation again, he said, and he is sure he committed no crime. He was seeking the PAN nomination for mayor of Chihuahua.
Governor Maru Campos was blunt: what he did "cannot be forgiven".
There are two versions of this arrest. The one they will tell you on television, and the one nobody dares to write.
Everyone named here is presumed innocent. None has been convicted by a court for the events described. The companies and people sanctioned by OFAC are sanctioned by administrative decision of the United States government.