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UPDATE 2-Mexico Urges US to Avoid Unauthorized Operations After Fatal Chihuahua Crash; State Prosecutor Resigns
Cesar Jauregui said the resignation would let investigators review the undisclosed role of CIA officers in the deadly antidrug raid.
- On Monday, April 27, Chihuahua Attorney General Cesar Jauregui resigned after admitting he provided the public "inconsistent" information that initially denied involvement of CIA officers in a drug lab raid.
- The resignation follows the April 19 deaths of two CIA officers whose vehicle crashed down a ravine in the Sierra of Chihuahua while returning from a clandestine drug lab operation.
- Chihuahua state prosecutor Paola Chavez Villanueva revealed the U.S. personnel were not formally deployed with the Chihuahua State Investigations Agency, and their inclusion as "foreign nationals" was not reported to higher command.
- Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum stated the federal government was unaware of U.S. involvement, while Jauregui said his resignation allows investigations to proceed "autonomously, promptly, and thoroughly" to "restore public trust."
- Jauregui noted the events overshadowed destruction of one of the largest drug labs in the nation's history, stating, "Demand for results in the fight against organized crime cannot and should not justify actions that do not strictly adhere to the law.
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The state prosecutor of Chihuahua, in northern Mexico, announced on Monday his resignation from office after the controversy that arose over the case of two CIA agents who died in an accident in the entity and who, according to the Mexican government, had no authorization to operate in the country.
UPDATE 2-Mexico urges US to avoid unauthorized operations after fatal Chihuahua crash; state prosecutor resigns
However, Jauregui said on Monday he had provided conflicting information, although he did not offer specifics about which details had been incorrect. "Regarding the events that have come to light around the presence of individuals who identified themselves as alleged foreign officials, the information we initially had - and which I shared with the public - was inconsistent," he said in a statement issued by the Chihuahua Attorney General's of…
With the dust lifted by the death of two still smoking CIA agents in Mexico, a new controversy opens another front in the bilateral relationship. A little over a month from the crucial negotiations to renew the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) Mexico and the United States are going through a pothole that threatens to be long and deep. The dispute over what exactly the two CIA agents were doing, killed in an accident in the Chihuahua mountains on April…
César Jauregui Moreno resigned from his post as head of the Chihuahua Public Prosecutor’s Office after the controversy over the entry of U.S. agents, allegedly from the CIA, who died in the town of Morelos after the dismantling of drug laboratories. “With full respect for transparency, I present my irrevocable resignation from my position as Attorney General of the State. My performance has had as north the protection of society and the action, …
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The prosecutor of the state of Chihuahua, César Gustavo Jáuregui Moreno, resigned this Monday in the midst of the controversy unleashed by the participation of two agents of the United States CIA in an operation in northern Mexico without the knowledge of the federal government. The agents died in the deployment, according to the Mexican authorities. “It is my duty to recognize that regarding the facts that have transcended around the presence o…
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