Mexican councilwoman imprisoned in the US says she was forced to transport drugs

A Mexican councilwoman, detained in USA for transporting a vehicle with drugs from Mexicoassured that she was forced to do so under death threats, as explained on Tuesday by her lawyer, who suggested that she request asylum.

Denisse Ahumada-Martinezcouncilor for the National Action Party (PAN) in the city of reynosastate Tamaulipasthe US border, was detained on June 10 after she tried to cross into Texas by the entrance of falfurriasaboard a vehicle with 42 kg of cocaine hidden.

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According to the police complaint, she also acknowledged that she had carried out a similar operation before. But “He never admitted that he was transporting drugs, that’s a lie”, the lawyer told AFP samuel reyeswho took on his case in Texas.

“There are violent subjects [en México] who are behind drug trafficking (…) who threatened her (…) presumably, they are linked to the drug traffickinga cartel (…) she doesn’t know who these people are, but they threatened her with firearms, they said they would kill her and her two daughters if she didn’t do exactly what they told her”, he explained.

“They told her: you are going to move this vehicle, and she moved the vehicle and did not know what was inside (…) Approximately thirty days later, they asked her to move another vehicle, again, and if she did not, they would kill her (. ..) She moved the vehicle and they stopped her at the Fallfurrias checkpoint, where they found cocaine”, he commented.

On June 15, a federal court dismissed the prosecution of Ahumada-Martínez, considering that the government (federal agents) failed to establish that “the defendant committed the crime charged”, according to the court decision.

For Reyes, the police made a careless complaint when they claimed that their client had admitted to deliberately transporting drugs.

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The councilor, still detained in Texas, now awaits a process at the state level. Her attorney is waiting for bail to be set.”reasonable” so that Ahumada-Martínez will be released and start an asylum application, with immigration lawyers. “I believe that, under her circumstances, she qualifies for asylum.”, he commented.

The president of Mexico, the leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorreferred to the case last week and, although he considered that “apparently it’s a minor matter”, he said his conservative rivals in the BREAD They acted hypocritically, withdouble talk and double standards”.

Source: Elcomercio

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