The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, has denied this Tuesday that there is any type of agreement with Justice to relieve the governor of Chihuahua, Maru Campos, of responsibility in relation to the secret operation in which the CIA took part and after which two of its agents died in a traffic accident while returning from the mission last April.
In her appearance, Sheinbaum insisted that there has been no understanding with the judicial authorities to favor Campos, who has been linked to that undercover operation. The president recalled that, on the previous day, she had already pointed out that the Prosecutor's Office did not have sufficient evidentiary elements to sustain that the governor was aware of said device.
"We do not make political pacts with Justice. Politics should not be judicialized, but neither should politics be judicialized," she clarified, emphasizing that the actions of the Public Ministry are governed by the investigation and not by political agreements.
Sheinbaum emphasized that it is not her competence to exonerate Campos and also denied having reached any type of arrangement with the governor in relation to the arrest of the former prosecutor of Chihuahua, César Jáuregui, who has been formally accused this Tuesday of the crime of treason to the homeland.
"There is no more, so much so that the governor herself makes a complaint. We do not make a pact, imagine agreeing with a governor to see who you put in jail," the Mexican president said at a press conference, rejecting any insinuation of political collusion.
"It does not depend on me to exonerate one person or another, it is a decision of the Prosecutor's Office and of the investigation, not even a personal decision of the prosecutor but of the investigation itself," Sheinbaum emphasized, reiterating that the determinations correspond to the judicial sphere.
Jáuregui was arrested last week for his alleged responsibility in the intervention of foreign agents in an operation aimed at dismantling an alleged drug laboratory in the Sierra Tarahumara, in the southwest of the state of Chihuahua, carried out without the knowledge of the Federal Government.
The matter came to public light after the death of two CIA agents in a traffic accident while returning from that operation. This episode provoked new criticisms from Sheinbaum, who for months has been warning about the growing interference of the United States in Mexico's internal affairs.