The lawyer Édgar Báez Gutiérrez refused to have sent a letter in which he allegedly confessed to having plagiarized Minister Yasmín Esquivel’s bachelor’s thesis.
This letter had been used to exonerate the minister. However, the lawyer said in a second interview with the outlet Central axis what he did not write that letterin addition to the fact that no one contacted him to testify on the matter.
In this sense, the litigant reiterated that he never received the notary public Armando Mastachi Aguario, who allegedly would have validated the letternor to Martha Rodríguez Ortiz, who was a thesis advisor for him and Esquivel Mossa.
Minister Esquivel pointed out that chad a statement before a notary public from the other student in which she “acknowledged and expressly stated that ‘I took various references and text from that work’”, which, according to her, demonstrated her innocence.
However, the lawyer rejected this claimby assuring that the original author of the thesis had been him.
During the conversation, Báez maintained that “logic explains everything: a person who titles later cannot claim plagiarism of a previously published work. Not wanting to assimilate or understand it is to become a duck”.
In this way, Báez insisted on his innocencearguing that “logic dispels everything: the one that is titled first obviously has the original text.”
Minister Esquivel was accused of having plagiarized the bachelor’s thesis of Báez Gutiérrez, who graduated a year before her from law at the Faculty of Higher Studies (FES) Aragón.
The Mexico City Attorney General’s Office (FGJCDMX) ignored the document released this Monday, prior to the vote in the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), in which it allegedly determined that Minister Yasmín Esquivel did not plagiarize his degree thesis.
“This Prosecutor’s Office has not ruled at any time on the subject nor has it made public any conclusion that the complainant was a victim of plagiarism,” he wrote in a Twitter thread.
According to the information shared in different media this Monday, the Prosecutor’s Office would have determined that the person responsible for plagiarism had been Edgar Ulises Báez, the intern who presented the thesis a year before Esquivel (1986).
The conclusion contrasted with what was established by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), which after analyzing the contents of both theses, not only found that the level of coincidence was 90 percent, but also considered it highly probable that the original document was supported by Báez.