Mexico clears general, publishes US evidence against him
By MARK STEVENSON and CHRISTOPHER SHERMANJanuary 16, 2021 GMT
MEXICO CITY (AP) Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has accused the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration of fabricating drug trafficking charges against the country’s former defense secretary even as his government published hundreds of pages of U.S. files that purported to show detailed evidence of the man’s close links with a drug gang.
The decision to denounce U.S. prosecutors on Friday while clearing a top official of charges adds to a crisis in security cooperation for the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden.
MEXICO CITY Mexico on Friday published 751 pages of evidence it received from the United States against Mexico’s former Defence Secretary, Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, whom U.S. prosecutors had charged with drug trafficking. The unprecedented move came a day after Mexico announced it was dropping the case against Cienfuegos, whom the U.S. arrested in […]
MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration had "fabricated" drug trafficking accusations against his country s former . . .