After almost 16 years, Prosecutor Carlos Zamarripa Aguirre left ownership of the Guanajuato Attorney General’s Office, in the midst of an increase in intentional homicides, constant criticism for his performance and questions for having secured, last June, a monthly pension of more than 147 thousand pesos.
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The now former official presented his resignation on September 30, but it became effective this Wednesday.
Given the departure of the controversial prosecutor, yesterday the governor Libya García Muñoz Ledo announced the provisional appointment of Zucé Anastacia Hernández Martínez at the head of the department, while the person who will occupy the position definitively is designated.
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“I am sure that he will carry out his work with professionalism and for the benefit of our people,” she said. It will be during the first months of 2025 that the name of whoever is elected and appointed by the local congress, after analyzing several profiles.
HE SAYS GOODBYE AMONG PRAISE
In the afternoon, a video circulated among the staff of the Prosecutor’s Office, where the now former official, as a farewell typical of a soap opera, narrates his path y autoelogia his judicial career.
Furthermore, in the video it is said that “today Carlos Zamarripa He leaves his position beyond his control but with the certainty of having formed a solid team with the best women and men to seek justice, it is not the end of his storyCarlos Zamarripa Keep going.”
MURDERS ON THE RISE
When Zamarripa Aguirre He took office in 2009 – first as head of the defunct Attorney General’s Office. Justice of Guanajuato and later as a prosecutor – the homicide rate was nine per 100 thousand inhabitants and now it is 59 per 100 thousand inhabitants.
Since 2020, then-president Andrés Manuel López Obrador questioned the permanence and immunity that Carlos Zamarripa supposedly had from the state government.
In October 2023, AMLO increased pressure against the prosecutor and stated that the legislation of the Prosecutor’s Office, since there are cases like Zamarripa Aguirre, where he had been in his position for several years and had not produced results against crime, “on the contrary, it is getting worse.”
During the last electoral campaign, the now governor García Muñoz Ledo promised to remove the prosecutor now Alvar Cabeza de Vaca, head of the state Security Secretariat who had been there for the same amount of time as him.
According to the organization Mexico Evalúa, Guanajuato It has 92.44 percent impunity in intentional homicides and 97.27 percent in extortion.
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