For months, business owners, merchants, political opponents, and municipal employees described the same pattern in Tequila, Jalisco: official visits that ended in threats, police officers acting as debt collectors, and government decisions used as punishment.
Today, this scheme is the focus of the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) in its case against Mayor Diego Rivera Navarro, whom it accuses of turning the mayor’s office into a platform for kidnappings, extortion, and political control, allegedly with the protection of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).
According to the arrest warrant request filed by the FGR and reviewed by Latinus, the criminal structure with which the mayor of Tequila operated included police officers, members of his cabinet, and individuals identified in the United States for ties to the CJNG.
“(Diego “N”) uses the force of the government for the execution of his criminal purposes (…) we are talking about the fusion of criminality with political power,” reads the arrest warrant that was submitted to a judge on January 30 and executed this Thursday, February 5.
