Overview
- Morena lawmakers filed a new criminal complaint with the federal attorney general’s office accusing Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca of fiscal fuel theft, organized crime and extortion, citing alleged schemes that let irregular fuel shipments move through Tamaulipas.
- The same legislators delivered 100,000 signatures to the Supreme Court, urging an expedited ruling on amparo 54/2024, which stems from a 2023 Reynosa ruling that annulled an arrest order.
- Prosecutors stated that Interpol’s red notice for García Cabeza de Vaca remains temporarily suspended, not canceled, due to the pending amparo.
- The lawmakers say the former governor is in the United States, moving between McAllen and Houston, and they pressed the FGR to open a formal probe and request his extradition.
- PAN defended García Cabeza de Vaca by naming him its representative for North America, and he appeared by video from the U.S. to claim political persecution, with party leaders noting he has no criminal sentence.