AMLO criticizes documents tested and thus published FGR file Cienfuegos

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador boasted the full publication of the DEA file on General Salvador Cienfuegos, noting that it would not make sense to disseminate that document with “tested” or deleted data. He said it was necessary to make it known to show that there was no solid evidence against the soldier, accused in the United States of alleged ties to drug traffickers.
His government shared in full the 751 pages of the report of the US agency, but in contrast, the version disseminated of the file by the FGR on Cienfuegos has most of its parts tested -cancelled with black color-.
“Imagine if we release a tested file, with deleted parts, it is worse. It is better not to publicize anything… complete and without testing anything,” López Obrador said during the morning conference on June 29. 

The public version of the file of the FGR -autonomous body- can be reviewed here and consists of 2 volumes. The first with 14 parts and the second with 7 parts, in addition to 9 annexes, but most of its leaves are fully tested.
Even the name of a tome has as its title “Black final tome.”

Being an autonomous entity, according to the law, the FGR would have in its hands to open the file. 
In the “tested” fragments, relevant data such as credentials, fiscal and patrimonial data, trades that followed up on the case, test data, forensic analysis of images and even names, dates and positions of the officials who were notified for the investigation are hidden. 
The name of General Salvador Cienfuegos was even tested, although he is the one involved. 
As the file is practically illegible, the Attorney General’s Office justified itself by alluding that it would release the public version of the complete file, “with the exceptions imposed by law.” 

As befits a State of Law and with the conviction of consolidating transparency and justice, the #FGR releases the public version of the complete file of the Salvador C case with the exceptions imposed by law. https://t.co/MIdbJGZ6x4 pic.twitter.com/9C1ullkN20
— FGR Mexico (@FGRMexico) January 17, 2021

Although in the case of the file released by the government, of the DEA, the United States also claimed that by disseminating it a treaty between nations was violated.
U.S. Accuses Mexico of Violating Legal Aid Treaty
As we tell you in this other note, on January 15, 2021, the Foreign Ministry made public the report that had been sent by the United States a few months earlier, and which contains more than 700 pages of transcripts and screenshots of telephone messages, with which they justified the capture of the retired general. 

In compliance with the presidential instruction of this January 15, the information on the case of retired General Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda is made public knowledge.https://t.co/C52sQZtpT0
— Foreign Affairs (@SRE_mx) January 15, 2021

After the publication, the Foreign Ministry decided to post on its website the two volumes of the investigation carried out by the FGR, which closed the case and assured that General Cienfuegos never had any encounter or communication with criminal organizations. 
This publication of the case provoked anger on the part of the United States authorities, who accused Mexico of violating the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty between the countries. 
Even the U.S. Department of Justice alluded in a statement that “this calls into question whether the United States can continue to share information to support Mexico’s own criminal investigations.” 
In this regard, López Obrador, president of Mexico, responded that “it is a very transcendent and delicate matter, because we cannot leave in question the government of the republic or its institutions, we made the decision to release the entire file. 
We apologize to the U.S. Government for acting in this way, you can say that how dare we release this document, where it is evident that the evidence that was collected in many years supposedly is not solid.”
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