The admiral of the Secretary of the Navy, Wilfrido Robledo Madrid died of health problems this Saturday.
The death of the former head of the State Security Agency of the Mexico state It was confirmed by the head of the Edomex C5, Hugo de la Cuadra.
“I deeply regret the sensitive death of Mr. Admiral Wilfrido Robledo Madrid, without a doubt a trainer of many cadres in matters of national security,” De la Cuadra wrote.
Sources told La Silla Rota that Robledo Madrid died of health problems such as hypertension and its deterioration following contracting covid-19 months ago.
The ex-command will be veiled at the García López funeral home located on Axis 10, in front of the “Los Arcos” restaurant.
WHO WAS WILFRIDO ROBLEDO MADRID?
Robledo Madrid was director of the Federal Police in the administration of Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León; with Enrique Peña Nieto as governor of the Mexico state he became the director of the State Security Agency.
At the end of his term in Zedillo’s six-year term, he was investigated by the extinct Secretary of the Comptroller’s Office and in 2004 the Secretary of Public Function disqualified him for five years for the irregular acquisition of a Sabreliner plane that cost 920 thousand dollars.
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Despite the fact that nine public servants were criminally and administratively accused, the then Attorney General’s Office (PGR), today the Prosecutor’s Office. He exonerated him and that was how in 2005 he was part of the EPN team, since the disqualification only had an effect on the federal administration.
As director of the Peña Nieto State Security Agency, Wilfrido was in charge of the 2006 operation in San Salvador Atenco and Texcoco, where peasants from the localities formed the “Peoples’ Front in Defense of the Land” once morest the construction of a new airport located in Texcoco, which was finally cancelled.
On May 3, 2006, itinerant flower growers tried to put their stalls on the sidewalks and the municipal police prevented it. The operation escalated in order to end their protests.
Seven women were raped and four more were victims of sexual, physical and psychological violence; more than 200 people were arrested and two more died. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) determined that the operation incurred serious acts of torture, physical and psychological violence.
It also indicated that the Mexican State failed to comply with its obligation to investigate the facts with due diligence and within a reasonable period of time.
THE RELATIONSHIP OF WILFRIDO ROBLEDO AND GARCÍA LUNA
In 1999, García Luna joined the Federal Preventive Police (PFP) headed by Wilfrido Robledo. There his work was national security and he was recruited for the area of ”intelligence in terrorism and counterterrorism”, where Robledo was designated as “his godfather” of him.
In 1994, García and Robledo investigated the kidnapping of the then president of the Bank of Mexico, Harp Helú. Who was finally released following 100 days and with a $10 million ransom.
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In the year 2000, at the end of Zedillo’s administration, the two organized the operation that ended the UNAM student strikewhere the Federal Preventive Police entered the facilities of the Maximum House of Studies where the students kept the school occupied in protest once morest the increase in registration fees. This was considered a violation of university autonomy, since the police even imprisoned hundreds of protesters.
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Today García Luna is imprisoned in the United States for conspiracy to traffic cocaine and corruption. In 2007 he was Secretary of Public Security for former President Felipe Calderón.
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