Businessman and politician Manuel Clouthier insisted this Wednesday that Felipe Calderón Hinojosa didn’t act against the Sinaloa Cartel due to “complicity” when he governed the country between 2007 and 2012. This comes after the former president criticized the security strategy of the Fourth Transformation (4T).
Through his account on X, Clouthier recalled a meeting he held on Thursday, January 21, 2010, at the official presidential residence of Los Pinos, where he asked the then-president to take action against the criminal organization.
“I met with Felipe Calderón at Los Pinos on Thursday, January 21, 2010, to ask him to act against the Sinaloa Cartel, to which he replied that they couldn’t act because they didn’t have information. Now we know why he couldn’t act… because of complicity, because of García Luna!” he wrote.
” The statement refers to criticisms the Sinaloa politician had already expressed in an interview with journalist Álvaro Delgado, published on February 14, 2010, in Proceso magazine, in which Clouthier accused the government of failing to impact his state in the so-called “war” on drug trafficking.
In that interview, Clouthier maintained that the state “hasn’t been touched, not even with a rose petal,” and questioned the reasons for this neglect. “But it turns out that Sinaloa hasn’t been touched, not even with a rose petal! And the question is, why?” he asked.
In response to this question, he pointed to collusion between authorities and organized crime, something that would be proven years later with the trial of Genaro García Luna, Calderón’s Secretary of Public Security, who was found guilty and sentenced to 38 years in prison in the United States for organized crime offenses.
