Javier Duarte confesses to having agreed to his delivery and paid an extortion to the Peña Nieto government to protect his family

Apparently, the former Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto has faced greater public difficulties when leaving the presidency than during his administration, and that is that apart from the strong accusations made by the well-known drug trafficker leader "El Chapo", now the statements made by Javier Duarte, former governor of Veracruz, against EPN.

According to Duarte, when the accusations against him for the crime of organized crime were weighing, he was evading the law, but it was the "inconvenience" to his family that led him to negotiate with the government of then President Peña Nieto to turn himself in and let them in peace.

Likewise, he accuses that some Peña Nieto officials asked him for a high payment to leave his family in peace and also reduce the seriousness of the case opened against him, organized crime is one of the most serious crimes in the country.

Surrender to get out of the electoral contest

It is the express intention that is read in Javier Duarte's statements, since he assures that when he established communication with the federal government and asked what he should do so that they would leave his family in peace, the answer was very specific: he had to turn himself in "before the gubernatorial elections in July".

The former governor even clarifies that the nine-year sentence he received was also agreed upon, all in exchange for delivering resources to the Peña Nieto government. However, Duarte insists that the main reason for his surrender was to protect his family and that on that point, he is grateful that the Peña Nieto government complied, although the others remain in arrears.

Turn on the fan against Peña Nieto officials

Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, former secretary of the interior in the presidency of EPN, was one of those pointed out by Duarte. The former governor speaks of Nieto's brazen gift of some resources to help him out of "remorse," something that seems absurd to him because the figure was less than what he had paid the Peña Nieto government for the extortion they did to him.

Chong defends himself arguing that there was never such a pact and even less extortion and that they always recommended the former governor to turn himself in and face the charges against him. It is not yet clear, from former EPN government officials, whether the detention of the former governor of Veracruz in Guatemala was a real capture operation or a pact.