El Mayo's Police Bodyguard Confirmed Missing, Sinaloa Governor Denies Involvement in "Mayo Meeting"
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Huertos del Pedregal de Culiacán event center where the meeting allegedly took place/ |
He described how a state police official served as his personal bodyguard and said he had agreed to leave his hideout at the request of 38-year-old Joaquín Guzmán López to “help resolve differences” between two feuding politicians.
Zambada said he brought his own bodyguards, four in total, including José Rosario Heras López, a commander in the State Judicial Police of Sinaloa, and Rodolfo Chaidez, whom he described as “a longtime member of my security team.”
“While walking toward the meeting area, I saw Héctor Cuen and one of his aides. I greeted them briefly before proceeding inside to a room that had a table filled with fruit,” Zambada said. Two of the guards stayed outside the perimeter. Two of the bodyguards with “El Mayo” were subdued by Joaquin Guzman’s men.
Zambada said that those two bodyguards who were with him, including the state police official, have been missing since the ambush and his kidnapping by Joaquin Guzman-Lopez. The statement also said Cuén Ojeda was killed at the scene and that his body was taken away.
One source, in an interview with Riodoce mentioned that among the men close to “El Mayo” whose current whereabouts are unknown were “Chayo” or Jose Rosario Heras Lopez, “Chaidez” or Rodolfo Chiadez and a man identified only as “Peña.” Peña was likely Jesús Peña González, known as “El 20.”
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The police officer’s family filed a complaint on July 28 for his disappearance since the 25th of July, when he went to visit his parents in Culiacáncito, the same day as Mayo’s kidnapping and arrest.
The National Transparency Platform shows that José Rosario Heras López was assigned in 2017 to the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Sinaloa, specifically to the Department of Execution of Arrest Warrants of the State Investigative Police.
State police commanders were given the nickname “Yankee,” Zambada Niebla testified, and his father liked to hand-deliver the bribes. “My dad is the kind of person who liked to see the Yankees or commanders personally,” he said. Vincentillo also detailed payments on his father’s behalf to a military general, federal police officials, and agents from the Mexican attorney general’s office tasked with investigating organized crime.
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Héctor Cuen Ojeda’s Assassination
In his statement, Fausto Ernesto Corrales said that on July 25 he had accompanied Cuén Ojeda to Campestre Condado de San Francisco, north of Culiacán, because he had a meeting scheduled with lawyers who never showed up. That same night, upon returning to the capital of Sinaloa, Corrales said that a pair of gunmen on a motorcycle approached and tried to steal their truck when they stopped to fill up with fuel at a gas station. When Cuén apparently refused to get out of the vehicle, the attackers shot him in the leg.
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Political Feud
Hector Cuen was the former rector of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa from 2005 till 2009 and founder of the Sinaloa Party (PAS). He had also been mayor of Culiacan from 2011 to 2013.
On July 5, the Director of Social Communication of the UAS was attacked by armed men in the parking lot of the rector’s building, although on that occasion the victim was unharmed.
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The protests pointed to Héctor Cuén, who was accused of being a “boss” within the institution.
“Mr. President, help us get Cuén out of the UAS. You have always been an ally of the university students of Sinaloa and we are firm in our commitment to the transformation. We want to end corruption at the UAS. Let’s free the UAS. Héctor Melesio Cuén chooses the rector, directors, high-level administrators, he decides who works at the UAS,” claimed the protestors.
When questioned about these protests and the issues, Mexican President AMLO spoke in favor of finding a solution to the conflict in which irregularities are alleged. “I don’t want to take sides, except to say that I have a lot of confidence in Rubén Rocha, the governor, and he is in favor of dialogue; so, hopefully an agreement will be reached between the parties,” said López Obrador.
“When we made the decision to support Morena and Professor Rocha, there was money to spare. I realized how much money they were getting. A lot of money. To such an extent that when the election was over, they kept a lot of money and started buying houses everywhere,” said Héctor Cuén.
He stated that for the purchase of two properties in different parts of Sinaloa they paid 36 million pesos (close to $2 million USD), after the election.
Approximately three weeks before he was assassinated, Hector stopped receiving the protection that the National Guard had been providing him since the recent elections. He was supposed to have protection that included 6 GN elements until August 23, 2024.
“I must thank the National Guard very much because suddenly we requested support due to a series of violent situations that were occurring in the context of this 2024 election,” Cuén Ojeda mentioned on his podcast in early July. He speculated as to the reasoning for his protection being removed after it was made public that he was being guarded. Hector stated on his podcast that “With what is happening, we hold the Government of Sinaloa responsible for whatever may happen.”
Sinaloa Governor Denies Involvement
At a news conference Saturday, Rocha forcefully denied any knowledge of the meeting described by Zambada, saying he was not in the state on the day it allegedly occurred. “If they told Mayo Zambada that I would be at the meeting, they lied to him and he fell right into the trap,” said Governor Rubén Rocha Moya.
“We have no complicity with anyone and that is precisely according to the President’s policy, there is no complicity. Therefore, if they said that I was going to be there, then they lied; and if you believed them, then you fell into the trap,” he declared.
“I have already been asked by many journalists, and this is my statement: there is absolutely nothing, nothing, that can link me to this matter. I say it in a categorical and forceful manner: nothing,” he added. The Governor stressed that no one from organized crime has to summon him to a meeting to resolve government problems.
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“Specific investigations have been carried out in the area known as Huertos del Pedregal de Culiacán and at the airfield that was possibly used in this case, as well as on all runways that may be specifically linked to these presumptions,” the report states.
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The Sinaloa Attorney General’s Office requested information from Governor Rubén Rocha Moya in the investigation that he opened after the capture of Ismael el Mayo Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán López and took on the investigation of the murder of Héctor Melesio Cuen Ojeda.
The FGR reported that immediately after the events involving Mayo and Joaquín occurred, it opened file number SON/HSO/0001/882/2024, for the possible crimes of illegal flight; illegal use of air facilities; violation of immigration and customs legislation; kidnapping; treason; and whatever else may result, and the crimes of homicide, illegal deprivation of liberty, and the resulting profits are being added following the recent allegations.
AMLO & Sheinbaum Visit Culiacan
López Obrador and Sheinbaum appeared Saturday in Sinaloa at the opening of a hospital. Governor Rubén Rocha Moya inaugurated the new Bernardo J. Gastélum General Hospital of Culiacán. The president and president-elect are from the same political party as Rocha, the Sinaloa governor.
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President-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum, announced that Governor Rubén Rocha Moya will continue with all the support of the presidency stating. “That is why I come to commit myself, to continue fighting alongside you for our beautiful and beloved Mexico, to tell you that we will continue supporting the governor of Sinaloa, Rubén Rocha Moya and his people, that whoever wants to stigmatize this beautiful state should stick with its history, because men and women of Sinaloa are good Mexicans, men and women of work.”
Source: https://www.borderlandbeat.com/2024/08/el-mayos-police-bodyguard-confirmed.html
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