Overview

• Substitute PAN deputy María Elena Pérez Jaén submitted a juicio político request to the Chamber of Deputies seeking an inquiry into Senator Adán Augusto López Hernández over alleged ties to La Barredora during his governorship.
• Hernán Bermúdez Requena arrived extradited from Paraguay on September 18, was placed in preventive detention at the Altiplano prison, and faces a linkage hearing on charges including association, extortion and express kidnapping under a local warrant.
• A separate federal arrest order for organized crime remains outstanding, and to date authorities executed only the local warrant upon Bermúdez’s arrival in Toluca.
• President Claudia Sheinbaum said it is important that Bermúdez is detained and stated the FGR will determine whether López Hernández should give a statement, noting the senator has said he would do so if requested.
• Parallel developments include OFAC sanctions that led Mexico’s UIF to freeze accounts of Morena deputy Hilda Araceli Brown, and renewed administrative proceedings notifying INE counselors Dania Ravel and Claudia Zavala over the 2021 revocation dispute, which the INE warns threatens its independence.