Former PAN lawmaker seeks impeachment of Morena senator over alleged cartel ties

Morena enactment Senator Adán Augusto López Hernández continues to look accusations related to the alleged transgression enactment of the antheral who served arsenic his information curate erstwhile helium was politician of Tabasco.

On Monday, a erstwhile National Action Party (PAN) lawmaker submitted a petition for López Hernández to beryllium subjected to an impeachment process known arsenic juicio político.

The papers submitted to the General Secretariat of the Chamber of Deputies by María Elena Pérez-Jaén Zermeño, a stand-in PAN lawman until past week, accuses the Morena legislator of having allowed transgression networks to run successful Tabasco erstwhile helium was politician of the Gulf seashore authorities betwixt 2019 and 2021.

The main radical that Pérez-Jaén alleges benefited from López Hernández’s behaviour is La Barredora, a transgression enactment linked to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel whose alleged person is Hernán Bermúdez Requena, information curate successful Tabasco betwixt 2019 and 2024.

Bermúdez was arrested successful Paraguay connected Sept. 12 and returned to Mexico past week. He faces charges of transgression association, extortion and explicit kidnapping, and is presently detained astatine a national situation successful México state.

The accusations against Bermúdez person been at the halfway of a large governmental ungraded successful Mexico.

Former Tabasco information curate arrested successful Paraguay connected organized transgression charges

López Hernández, who appointed Bérmudez arsenic his authorities information minister, has faced questions implicit what helium knew astir the alleged transgression activities of his constabulary chief.

He relinquished the governorship of Tabasco to go interior curate successful the national authorities led by erstwhile president Andrés Manuel López Obrador. López Hernández became the person of Morena — Mexico’s ruling enactment — successful September 2024.

Pérez-Jaén seeks to person López removed from the Senate and disqualified from holding nationalist office

In her juicio político request, Pérez-Jaén wrote that she was seeking the dismissal of López Hernández from his legislator presumption arsenic good arsenic a judgement that disqualifies him from holding nationalist bureau for “up to 20 years.”

Succeeding successful having López Hernández removed from bureau is, successful effect, a tube dream, fixed that two-thirds of lawmakers would person to enactment specified a motion, and Morena and its allies predominate some houses of Congress.

Pérez-Jaén besides wants the legislator to beryllium taxable to a transgression investigation.

She claimed that it’s good known that López Hernández “had cognition of the illicit activities” allegedly committed by Bermúdez during his governorship. Pérez-Jaén besides claimed that the ex-governor engaged successful power peddling and bribery, and covered up the amerciable behaviour of his ex-security minister.

La Barredora, a Tabasco-based transgression group, is allegedly progressive successful a scope of illicit activities, including migrant trafficking, cause trafficking, substance theft and extortion. Illegal taps connected Pemex pipelines successful Tabasco accrued 167% annually successful 2019, the archetypal twelvemonth of López Hernández’s governorship, the paper Reforma reported Monday.

Pérez-Jaén told reporters that her allegations against López Hernández are supported by subject accusation that was hacked and leaked successful 2022. Pérez-Jaén besides submitted media reports that implicate the legislator successful the alleged transgression activities of Bermúdez. She stressed that she was presenting the petition for juicio político arsenic an mean national alternatively than successful immoderate authoritative capacity.

“Anyone tin travel present and taxable [a request],” Pérez-Jaén said.

Asked past Friday whether López Hernández’s enactment of Morena successful the Senate was “sustainable” fixed the accusations Bermúdez faces, President Claudia Sheinbaum said determination was nary grounds against the senator.

“There is nothing, astatine this time, that incriminates him,” she said astatine her regular property conference.

López Hernández has said that helium is consenting to talk to authorities about the lawsuit against his erstwhile information minister.

In July, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) formally requested that the Federal Attorney General’s Office analyse the legislator for transgression association. The PRI besides demanded, unsuccessfully, that helium resign. The PAN has besides demanded a ceremonial probe into López’s ties to Bermúdez.

“This is not an isolated case,” PAN legislator and erstwhile statesmanlike campaigner Ricardo Anaya said successful July.

“This suggests a signifier of complicity betwixt Morena and organized crime,” helium said.

With reports from Reforma, El Universal and Animal Político