2023-10-19 17:06:01
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced on Thursday the resignation of Undersecretary Alejandro Encinas, who was in charge of investigations into emblematic human rights cases, who decided to leave the government to join the candidate’s team. official presidential
López Obrador said in his morning conference that the undersecretary of Human Rights, Population and Migration presented his resignation to participate in “electoral political activities,” but did not offer details.
Former tax attorney Félix Arturo Medina Padilla was appointed as the new undersecretary, the president reported.
The departure of Encinas, who since the beginning of the López Obrador administration in 2018 led the government commission that investigated the disappearance of 43 students that occurred nine years ago in southern Mexico, was announced on Wednesday by the official presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum, who indicated on her X social network account, formerly known as Twitter, that she had asked him to support her in the upcoming process.
The former mayor of the Mexican capital was chosen in September as the standard bearer of the Morena party to compete in the June 2024 presidential elections.
The resignation of the undersecretary comes following the questions that López Obrador made last week to the members of the government commission that he created two years ago to clarify the human rights violations that occurred during the so-called “dirty war” that was waged once morest the leftist guerrillas, dissidents and social movements throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
The president’s criticism arose following the commission, which Encinas also headed, accused the Army of hindering investigations by denying access to files and altering documents.
López Obrador came out in defense of the military, ensuring that they have always collaborated in the investigations of the “dirty war” and the disappearance of the 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Normal School.
The Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center (Centro Prodh), one of the country’s main humanitarian organizations that provides legal support to the students’ relatives, regretted Encinas’ resignation on Thursday and said on its X account that the Former official exercised his position with “commitment and capacity for dialogue.” The Prodh Center reiterated its criticism of López Obrador and the Army and accused the president of promoting “misinformation” in the case.
The investigations of the so-called “Ayotzinapa case” entered a crisis last year following the resignation of the special prosecutor of the case, Omar Gómez Trejo, the cancellation of several arrest warrants for those allegedly involved and the questions that the group of experts made to some evidence that was used to put together the first report that Encinas presented in August of last year.
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