People’s Mañanera October 19
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on well-being stipends, Chihuahua, ICE custody deaths, and Morena’s polling.
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on well-being stipends, Chihuahua, ICE custody deaths, and Morena’s polling.
Ernestina Godoy says Jáuregui let two CIA agents join a state narco lab raid without authorization, a charge with no public precedent in at least 50 years.
The CIA operated illegally on Mexican soil without the federal government’s consent; now the Chihuahua officials who allowed it are facing charges.
Campos calls it an anti-narco shield, but Morena warns the PAN measure could sanction rivals on suspicion alone, without evidence or due process.
If any law was broken in the drug operation involving CIA agents in Chihuahua, those responsible, including state officials, must be prosecuted, the two agreed.
Federal officials skipped the opening of the 4.7-billion-peso Chihuahua surveillance tower, built by an opposition state government accused of inviting CIA agents in violation of Mexican law.
Chihuahua’s right-wing PAN government signed the Israel water pact without registering it with Mexico’s federal foreign ministry; groups in 14 states march August 1 to cancel it.
For Luis Chaparro, beyond the political implications, the case reveals possible violations of the National Security Law & an irregular relationship with US agencies.
“Mario Mata broke the law, modified the agreement on his own and evaded federal control procedures; this agreement is also a violation of national sovereignty.”
Demonstrations are useless in these cases; even less so the collection of signatures and the “analysis of all possibilities” by Mexico’s wise legislators, which only delay action against a treasonous Governor.