Following letter from ‘El Mayo’, Sinaloa governor denies dealings with ‘narco’

Culiacan, Sin. Governor Rubén Rocha Moya rejected the allegations that Ismael allegedly made in a statement The May Zambada, co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel, who point directly to the state governor as being involved in his capture.

There is absolutely nothing that can link me to this matter. Nothing! I say this in a categorical, forceful way. Nothing!he stressed yesterday.

Before President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the future federal leader, Claudia Sheinbaum, the governor stated that he was out of the state on the day of Zambada’s capture. There is an alleged letter from one of those arrested on the 25th (July). It is a letter from Mr. Ismael Zambada, who was captured with the young Joaquín Guzmán López..

He commented that in his alleged statements, The May He mentions that he was summoned to a meeting attended by, among others, the local leader and members of organized crime to resolve the conflict at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS), which maybe it was the hook so that The May come, he said.

The governor denied the existence of such a meeting: “Nobody from organized crime has to call me to a meeting to resolve a problem, which was the university’s problem. Problems that are the responsibility of the government are resolved in the institutions. We have no complicity with anyone, and that is precisely professing the President’s policy. Therefore, if they told you that I was going to be there, they lied to you; and if you believed them, you fell into the trap; you didn’t have to, you don’t have to.

Rocha Moya opened the inauguration ceremony of the IMSS-Bienestar Dr. Bernardo J. Gastélum General Hospital in this capital and took advantage of his participation to distance himself from the accusations against him. He did so just a few hours after the alleged testimony of the drug lord was released.

It was defined as apprentice of Obrador’s policy of combating corruption and not establishing relations of complicity with crime. I cannot allow anyone to try to smear me, because many of the things have that purpose, to smear me and in the process see if the President is smeared..

He asked the president to be the link with the head of the Attorney General’s Office (FGR), Alejandro Gertz Manero, so that this agency takes on the investigations for the murder of Héctor Melesio Cuén, former rector of the UAS, perpetrated on the same day of the arrest of The May.

He said that although the investigations into this crime are being conducted by the state prosecutor’s office, he considered it better for the case to be handled by the FGR “so that there are no suspicions of any kind (…) and greater impartiality is guaranteed.”

The governor, who had the support of hundreds of people who attended the inauguration of the hospital, stressed that while it is true that in the state was born and developed Drug trafficking and the Sinaloa cartel, not everything in Sinaloa is linked to that organization and criminal activity. We do not accept this stigma, we fight against it..