“AMLO’s name already appears in US archives as Garcia Luna”: Hector de Moulin
A few days ago, an investigation conducted by some journalists was revealed, of which, Tim Golden, An American journalist who has twice won the Pulitzer Prize, where he alleges Lopez Obrador In 2006, took money from organized crime to finance his first presidential campaign.
This topic is addressed by the journalist Hector de Moulin in his video column for Media Latinus This Friday. In it, De Moulen recounts some facts that relate to AMLO The Sinaloa Cartelsuch as the release of Ovidio GuzmanHis continued visit to Badiraguato and greeting his mother Joaquin L Chapo Guzman.
After this, remember that AMLO followers came out in defense of the President and said that the investigation is not complete, so nothing can be confirmed.
From Mauleon notes that Tim Golden has said that the investigation has not reached a conclusion, but yes for important information. It indicates that the version has been handled Golden Backtracked after publishing his research, which he claims is falsified, Well, Golden confirms that he was aware of the investigation that took placeAnd he spoke to the four witnesses Edgar Valdez Villarreal attended a DEA meeting in Vallarta, known as BarbieA drug-trafficking leader, as well as two politicians and businessmen who call themselves representatives of the current campaign President of Mexico.
“One of them was a promoter AMLO In the lagoon region, Hector Francisco Leonknown as Pancho Leonwho disappeared months after López Obrador’s defeat and has not been heard from since,” he says.
He alleged that at the meeting, according to witnesses, financing 2 million dollars for the 2006 presidential campaign of the Sinaloa cartel AMLO. Golden, he continues, claims to have been the man who was given the money Mauricio Soto CaballeroNo longer a member National Council of Morena, who ended up working as a confidential source for DEAAfter being involved in a drug trafficking conspiracy.
“Golden said that Soto Caballero knew that if he did not tell the truth to US agents and prosecutors he could be imprisoned at any time. So I was interested in telling the truth. According to Golden, Soto Caballero may have recorded others involved in the plot: Nicolas Molinado, Nikowho was long portrayed as AMLO’s humble driver and today is a multi-millionaire businessman with strong real estate interests in the land where Mayan Train”.
He says that according to the investigation of Tim Golden, Mauricio Soto Caballero, Sergio Villarreal Barragán, nicknamed Drug Trafficker The Grande, DEA witness who was a lawyer for drug traffickers and became an informant for this agency, Roberto Lopez Najera, And a man, whose name was not obtained by the reporter, announced in a statement that the money was given to AMLO’s campaign.
Golden, points out From Moulin, Nothing was retracted, and remember the investigation existed, and didn’t continue because the DEA’s review committee decided to close it following its own protocol when Not able to verify that the money was delivered.
but, Golden learned that the DEA intended to reopen the case in the 2012 electionAlleged drug traffickers offered money to people close to López Obrador, but considerations stopped everything diplomatic and political, But the investigation did exist.
“Today we know his name Andrés Manuel López Obrador already appears in the archives of US agencies as the name of the former security secretary, Genaro García Luna, who once did. “The investigation into the Sinaloa cartel’s alleged financing of López Obrador’s campaign adds to a long list of suspected ties between organized crime and the AMLO government,” it explains.