Gisela Gaytán was denied custody in Guanajuato: SSPC

In Guanajuato it prevails a very strange relationship, like a conspiracy, like there is a group that rules and has more power than the governor himselfDiego Sinhue Rodríguez Vallejo, stated President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, when regretting the murder of Morena’s candidate for mayor of Celaya, Gisela Gaytán.

Is it a criminal group or politicians?, he was asked yesterday morning. To which he replied: I don’t know, but it’s like the governor governs, but he doesn’t command, to put it clearly. Regrettable. And he is a good person, but we can no longer remain silent because we cannot be anyone’s cover, especially when he is in the middle of people’s lives..

For her part, the head of the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), Rosa Icela Rodríguez, indicated in the morning that in the attack against the mayor’s flag bearer, the candidate for mayor of Celaya, Adrián Guerrero Caracheo, was also murdered.

However, at 1:25 p.m. – almost four hours later – the agency itself clarified in an information card that until that moment the candidate He is not located, and not deceased, as reported this morning. Finally, in the afternoon, it was reported that he had turned up alive.

At the conference at the National Palace, Rosa Icela Rodríguez also reported that even when Morena requested protection for its candidates in that entity, the electoral authority did not provide it under the argument of that the campaign had not started. This, he stressed, will be included in the investigations carried out by the local prosecutor’s office and he guaranteed that there will be no impunity.

López Obrador opened the morning referring to crime. It is a sad day because yesterday the candidate for municipal president of Celaya was murdered. And these events are very regrettable because they are people who are fighting to assert democracy, who are in the streets showing their faces, fighting for others, and it hurts a lot that this happens in our country and anywhere..

He recommended that even though it was a fact very painfulthe party appoints a substitute to compete for the mayor’s office and not create a vacuum. In politics, power vacuums are always filled, there are no vacuums. That we must continue fighting for justice and freedom, and for a better society with justice, without violence, and we all have to do it..

Later, when asked about the case, the man from Tabasco stated that Guanajuato has long been the entity with the highest number of murders in the country. He presented the figures from Wednesday to Sunday of last week, when 40 homicides were recorded in the entity, 12 percent of the 334 that were reported throughout the national territory.

He recalled that at the time he advised the governor to remove the state prosecutor, Carlos Zamarripa, to improve the fight against impunity, but his proposal was not echoed.

The head of the SSPC explained that the strategy to protect candidates for elected positions is carried out in a coordinated manner between the federal and state governments and the National Electoral Institute.

It is up to the federal administration, he said, to provide protection to the candidates – who request it – to the Presidency, to the nine governorships at stake and to the Congress of the Union; while the state ones will do the same with local candidates.

To date, 15 applicants have been murdered and there are 108 requests for protection, of which 86 were attended to, 10 declined and 12 are under risk analysis.