Translated by El Profe for Borderland Beat from Proceso
![Humberto y Rubén Moreira. Foto: Especial]( "El gobierno de Coahuila descalifica informe que denuncia complicidad de los Moreira con Los Zetas")
MEXICO CITY (APR) .- The government of Coahuila presented this morning [Nov 27] a document to answer and clarify "inaccuracies" contained in the report prepared by the Human Rights Clinic of the University of Texas.
The document - presented by the government secretary, Víctor Zamora Rodríguez, and the head of the entity's Human Rights Office, Federico Garza - rejects the assertions about the control exercised by The Zetas cartel in Coahuila, based on testimony from ex members of that criminal organization, among whose statements is the complicity of the governments of Humberto and Rubén Moreira.
The statements concerning collaboration of the State with the organized crime are totally false, affirmed Zamora Rodríguez; evidence of this, he added, is the decrease in homicide rates related to organized crime, as well as the improvement in security.
After specifying that in 2012 there were 688 intentional homicides, and this year 94 have been counted, the state official stressed: "In a simple contrast with reality it is evident that it does not correspond or does not fit with what is happening today, because this administration has directed its actions to fight against the interests of organized crime."
In that sense, the report presented by the Human Rights Clinic is not an investigation, but the testimony of ex-members of the Zetas in three trials held in the United States, he said.
According to the document of the government of Coahuila, that report omits the official information on the investigations in the cases of Allende and the Piedras Negras penitentiary, as well as the arrests not only of members of organized crime and public servants in both cases, but of the taking down and / or arrest of the main leaders of this organization in the state.
The government does not reject efforts or discredit the University of Texas report, but considers it important to mention the actions of the current administration in terms of security, stressed Víctor Zamora, according to information released by the newspaper Zócalo de Saltillo.
MEXICO CITY (APR) .- The government of Coahuila presented this morning [Nov 27] a document to answer and clarify "inaccuracies" contained in the report prepared by the Human Rights Clinic of the University of Texas.
The document - presented by the government secretary, Víctor Zamora Rodríguez, and the head of the entity's Human Rights Office, Federico Garza - rejects the assertions about the control exercised by The Zetas cartel in Coahuila, based on testimony from ex members of that criminal organization, among whose statements is the complicity of the governments of Humberto and Rubén Moreira.
The statements concerning collaboration of the State with the organized crime are totally false, affirmed Zamora Rodríguez; evidence of this, he added, is the decrease in homicide rates related to organized crime, as well as the improvement in security.
After specifying that in 2012 there were 688 intentional homicides, and this year 94 have been counted, the state official stressed: "In a simple contrast with reality it is evident that it does not correspond or does not fit with what is happening today, because this administration has directed its actions to fight against the interests of organized crime."
In that sense, the report presented by the Human Rights Clinic is not an investigation, but the testimony of ex-members of the Zetas in three trials held in the United States, he said.
According to the document of the government of Coahuila, that report omits the official information on the investigations in the cases of Allende and the Piedras Negras penitentiary, as well as the arrests not only of members of organized crime and public servants in both cases, but of the taking down and / or arrest of the main leaders of this organization in the state.
The government does not reject efforts or discredit the University of Texas report, but considers it important to mention the actions of the current administration in terms of security, stressed Víctor Zamora, according to information released by the newspaper Zócalo de Saltillo.