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The federal commissioner in Michoacán, Alfredo Castillo, today denied, the former leader of the AUC in Tepalcatepec, Dr. José Manuel Mireles, has negotiated with the Interior Ministry his release. The report was initially published on November 10th in the news outlet Cambio de Michoacán.
The federal commissioner in Michoacán, Alfredo Castillo, today denied, the former leader of the AUC in Tepalcatepec, Dr. José Manuel Mireles, has negotiated with the Interior Ministry his release. The report was initially published on November 10th in the news outlet Cambio de Michoacán.
News of an agreement was reported first by Michoacán’s Father Goyo, and confirmed yesterday by Thalia Vasquez, the now the former lead attorney of Dr. Mireles. Vasquez resigned from the defense team because of the reported agreement.
The agreement supposedly calls for Dr Mireles to go into exile and not run for political office until the year of 2018. The agreement was said to be between Dr Mireles and Interior Ministry, Miguel Angel Osorio Chong.
"There is no such arrangement, agreement, discussion, management in this regard," Castillo told Milenio TV.
It is difficult to believe there was not an agreement on the table since Vasquez cited Dr. Mireles acceptance of the agreement, the reason for her resigning from the case, along with the other attorneys on the defense team.
Pricilla of the news agency Grillonautas once a close friend of Dr Mireles, made her discontentment known by referring to the agreement as “a shameful pact”.
If true, it appears that Dr Mireles is now alone, without an agreement, his defense team, and his strongest advocate.