Overview

• Paraguay’s anti-narcotics agency, working with Mexican authorities and Interpol, arrested Hernán Bermúdez Requena in Mariana Roque Alonso after seven months as a fugitive.
• Judge Osmar Legal ordered preventive detention, and Mexico now has up to 60 days to file the formal extradition request under the ordinary process.
• The former Tabasco security chief is accused by the Mexican government of leading La Barredora and of extortion, drug trafficking, and fiscal fuel tax evasion known as huachicol fiscal.
• Guacamaya-leaked Sedena emails and Cerfi analyses since 2021 linked him to CJNG and named alleged lieutenants in Tabasco’s security forces, yet he remained in office until January 2024, left Mexico in January 2025, and drew a July arrest warrant and Interpol notice.
• Security commentators say his statements could implicate political and business figures, with Senator Adán Augusto López Hernández frequently mentioned as a potential focus of scrutiny.