Abel Barajas
Reform Agency
Monday, February 13, 2023 | 08:10
Mexico City.- The Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) has managed in the last five months to bring to trial 17 of the 62 involved in the file of the Iguala Case, prosecuted last year, for the crimes of organized crime and forced disappearance.
On August 19, the Second District Court for Federal Criminal Proceedings of the State of Mexico, then in charge of Enrique Beltrán Santés, issued a total of 83 arrest warrants against former officials of the three levels of Government and alleged drug traffickers.
However, on September 13, the FGR withdrew 21 injunctions, 16 issued against the military and five against former officials of the Government of Guerrero, including former Attorney Iñaky Blanco Cabrera and the former president of the Superior Court of Justice, Lambertina Galeana. Marin.
According to documents from the criminal case, of the 62 remaining apprehensions, the FGR succeeded in prosecuting 17 people, two of them local politicians, seven police chiefs and agents, four soldiers and four suspected drug traffickers, several of them imprisoned for some time. for various charges.
It is about a little more than a quarter of all those wanted by justice in this judicial file.
Those on trial are headed by the former mayor of Iguala, José Luis Abarca Velázquez, and his wife María de los Ángeles Pineda Villa, prisoners in different federal prisons since November 5, 2014.
The soldiers prosecuted in this criminal case are Brigadier General José Rodríguez Pérez, former commander of the 27th Infantry Battalion, as well as his subordinates Captain José Martínez Crespo, Second Lieutenant Fabián Alejandro Pirita Ochoa and First Infantry soldier Eduardo Mota Esquivel.
The heads of the corporation with formal imprisonment are Leonardo Octavio Vázquez Pérez, former Secretary of Public Security of Guerrero; Felipe Flores Velázquez, former head of the Iguala Police, and César Nava González, former head of the Cocula Municipal Police.
Also on the list are municipal agents: Rodolfo Nava Ortiz and Sergio Velázquez Almaraz, from the Huitzuco Police; Gabriela Ramírez Vallejo “Doña Martha”, from the Municipality of Iguala; and Miguel Antúnez Mejía, from the Traffic Police of the same municipality.
The rest of the defendants are Ramiro Ocampo Pineda “El Chango”, Raúl Núñez Salgado “El Camperra”, Gilberto Parra Vargas “El Loco de Santa Teresa” and Pablo Tomás Ortiz Hernández or Eduardo Villanueva Viviano “El Chino”, all of them accused of belong to the criminal group Guerreros Unidos, perpetrator of the crime of the 43 Ayotzinapa normalistas.
Although in this criminal case the execution of 45 arrest warrants is pending – most of them are for individuals evaded from justice – the Prosecutor’s Office will only be able to capture 42 because three of the fugitives from justice are already dead.
One of them is Humberto Velásquez Delgado “El Guacho”, commander of the Guerrero Ministerial Police, executed on June 16, 2021 in Iguala; another is Abraham Catalán Hernández, a Huitzuco Police officer, found dead on August 18, 2019 in a hotel in Iguala.
The third is the alleged drug trafficker Alfredo Mendoza Salgado “El Dólar”, riddled with bullets on October 4, 2019 in Teloloapan, where he was allegedly the head of the Guerreros Unidos plaza.
