File photo of former Chihuahua prosecutor Guillermo Zuany seated at a meeting table.

Guillermo Zuany, Former Chihuahua Prosecutor, Flees to US and Comes Under Government Protection

ByLa Jornada Editorial Staff

This article by La Jornada Editorial Staff originally appeared in the November 12, 2026 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.

Chihuahua’s former prosecutor for Strategic Operations and Anti-Kidnapping, Guillermo Zuany, fled to the United States and is under the protection of that country’s government, U.S. and Mexican officials told The New York Times this Thursday on condition of anonymity.

Last Tuesday, the U.S. newspaper reported that Zuany had allegedly collaborated with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in an operation carried out in the Sierra Tarahumara, a case in which the state’s former attorney general, César Jáuregui, faces proceedings for the crimes of treason and unlawful exercise of public office.

According to the newspaper, for more than six months beginning last year, Zuany coordinated CIA agents who trained Chihuahua’s security forces in missions against the cartels and contributed their expertise during ground operations.

According to the sources consulted by the newspaper, the former official fled to U.S. territory to avoid arrest after it became known that the Federal Attorney General’s Office (FGR) has active arrest warrants.

The New York Times reported that, as of this Thursday, Zuany’s whereabouts in the United States were unknown.