Verso 2014 by Anonymous

Author:Anonymous [Anonymous]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Verso 2014
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The confession was signed by General Álvarez Nahara, who also noted his army registration number (488607), in accordance with the procedure governing all official military documents. The witnesses followed suit.

The copy in our possession, on headed stationery, appears to be an authentic Sedena document in every respect. In contrast with the document shown in part by Milenio in 2002, the one the author received is stamped, showing it to have been processed by the General Investigation Coordination Office of the Deputy Attorney’s Office of Coordination and Development at the PGR—a circumstance that makes its disappearance from the official archives more serious still. The attorney general at that time was Jorge Carpizo McGregor.

During his first interrogation by the PGR, later on the same day of June 9, 1993, instead of inquiring further into the accusations made by El Chapo on the airplane, the drug trafficker was forced under duress to dissociate Federico Ponce Rojas and other functionaries in the Salinas government from any connection with his criminal activities. He was also forced to exonerate Miguel Ángel Segoviano Berbera (the accountant used by El Chapo, Héctor Palma Salazar and Amado Carrillo Fuentes), whose trail led to former president Luis Echeverría Álvarez and to a hangar owned by the Vázquez Raña brothers in Mexico City’s International Airport, where the traffickers housed some drug transportation planes.

Federico Ponce Rojas, who featured in the first confession several times, had served as a deputy attorney in the PGJDF, director-general of preliminary investigations and deputy attorney general at the PGR, between 1988 and 1993 when Ignacio Morales Lechuga was head of both attorney’s offices under President Salinas. By the time El Chapo came to make his statement, Ponce Rojas no longer occupied any government post.

Shortly afterward, Ponce joined the Banamex banking group where he went from strength to strength. Until December 2013, he acted as the top lawyer for the Banamex-Citigroup board, a job he carried out for ten years.

Commander José Luis Larrazolo was executed in 1994; Guillermo Salazar Ramos was arrested in 2000, accused of protecting the Arrellano Félix brothers, and released in 2006.

Had Guzmán Loera’s confession been harmless, because false, an investigation should still have been conducted, and any responsibilities duly adjudicated. The disappearance of the document implies that it was discomforting because true. Everything suggests that the government tried to get rid of it so that the collusion between Salinas de Gortari’s administration and Guzmán Loera would remain unpunished.

But if the revelations of a minor drug dealer like El Chapo could appear so dangerous in 1993, what would be the effect of the disclosures he’d be in a position to make today, as one of the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel?

Following his capture in 2014, the PGR publicly announced the confiscation of a few weapons and properties associated with Guzmán Loera. But it has not told us to date (March 2014) whether the notorious trafficker has provided any information regarding the corrupt networks that shielded him throughout his criminal career. At the time of writing, to the best of our knowledge, Guzmán Loera had made no declaration of any kind.

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