Morelos Governor Blanco, Accused of Cartel Ties Himself, Deflects by Naming Politicians Linked to Traffickers

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"As far as it goes, I'm not going to stop," Blanco said as he left the office belonging to the Attorney General's Office (FGR) and added that he is aware that there are judges, prosecutors, state and municipal police who are involved with drug trafficking.

This Monday, January 17, the governor of Morelos, Cuauhtémoc Blanco, appeared at the Office of the Special Prosecutor for Organized Crime Investigation (SEIDO) to file a complaint against several politicians in Morelos allegedly involved in organized crime.

"As far as it goes, I'm not going to stop," Blanco said as he left the office belonging to the Attorney General's Office (FGR) and added that he is aware that there are judges, prosecutors, state and municipal police who are involved with drug trafficking. "Here I am showing my face and I am not going to stop and I am not afraid of them, here I am firm," he said.

In the complaint, Blanco included the deputy of the New Alliance Party (Honeycomb), Agustín Alonso Gutiérrez, former mayor of Yautepec, in whose government Raymundo Castro Salgado was empowered, El Ray, lieutenant of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG) and one of the criminals portrayed next to Blanco.

The images date back to April 13, 2019, when El Ray managed to escape with his life from an attack that was perpetrated at the Los Estanques seafood restaurant in the city of Cuautla.

At the beginning of the week, a series of images brought to light revealed that El Ray was possibly protected from the Morelos authorities. Although at first it was said that the criminal boss fled the area supported by his security force, it was later found that he actually left the seafood restaurant walking in front of a crowd of state police officers, without any of them doing anything about it.

Cuauhtémoc Blanco also included Senator Ángel García Yáñez in the complaint filed with SEIDO, who was related on more than one occasion to organized crime (detained drug traffickers came to carry credentials accrediting them as their advisers) and romantically linked to Esther Yadira Huitrón, aka La Jefa, operator and a publicist for Guerreros Unidos/CJNG (as well as the sister of the state president of the Progressive Social Networks Party). It was on La Jefa's phone that the photo of Blanco posing with several drug traffickers surfaced.

In one of the narcomantas found in Morelos on January 8, an attempt was made to explain who was behind the leaks of the photograph of the former soccer player with Ray. “THE CAUSE OF THE THREATS AGAINST THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MORELOS ARE BY THE NARCO SENATOR ANGEL GARCIA YAÑEZ AND HIS ORGANIZED CRIME GROUP (sic)”.

The former mayor of the municipality of Miacatlán and current deputy of Movimiento Ciudadano, Luz Dary Quevedo, as well as her husband, Cutberto Aguirre, coordinator of the Operative Commission of Movimiento Ciudadano in Tetecala, also appear on the list; Celso Nieto Estrada, mayor of Coatlán del Río; a magistrate of the Superior Court of Justice and the state prosecutor, Uriel Carmona.

Graco Ramírez, former governor of the state, was pointed out by Secretary Ojeda Cárdenas, he was pointed out by Blanco outside SEIDO for allegedly agreeing with El Carrete, leader of the Los Rojos criminal group. The complaint is, for those who are responsible, for the crimes of organized crime, crimes against health, and whatever results, to the detriment of Morelos society, he explained.

“I am not going to stop because I am not going to allow these characters to destroy my image and here I am showing my face. I am not afraid of them, here I am firm, showing my face, make no mistake about these narco-politicians and all this organized crime,” he explained.

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