Sheinbaum Details Shouting Match with Chihuahua Governor over CIA Raid: Friday’s Mañanera Recapped
Sheinbaum said the governor blamed former prosecutor César Juregui for bringing CIA agents into an unauthorized raid, and he now faces treason charges.
- On Friday, President Claudia Sheinbaum disclosed that Chihuahua Governor Maru Campos blamed her former state prosecutor, César Jáuregui, for unauthorized CIA involvement in an April drug lab raid.
- The April 17-19, 2026, operation in Chihuahua's Sierra Tarahumara targeted clandestine drug labs, but a vehicle crash killed four people, including two Americans; Mexican officials describe them as CIA officers.
- Facing treason charges after his arrest last week, Jáuregui awaits a federal judge's decision on Saturday whether to send the former prosecutor to trial for his alleged role in the incident.
- During a September meeting, Campos defended herself by stating, "It wasn't me, it was my former prosecutor," while also accusing Ariadna Montiel, leader of Mexico's ruling party, of links to crime.
- Jáuregui's defense claims the arrest is politically motivated and tied to internal party disputes; they plan to appeal a state ruling from October 22 that allowed a charge to proceed.
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Sheinbaum details shouting match with Chihuahua governor over CIA raid: Friday’s mañanera recapped
At Friday's presser, Sheinbaum gave her account of her clash with Gov. Maru Campos over the CIA’s alleged role in an unauthorized April drug lab raid in Chihuahua.
María Eugenia Campos, governor of Chihuahua, said that in the relationship with President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo “they will never see us bent,” in the midst of the controversial details revealed about the conversation they had in Chihuahua last September 19. The state president emphasized that her government will be courageous and humanistic, with the intention of “knowing the consequences” that Chihuahua would have if we “let go into the gover…
“It wasn’t a conversation of two friends,” he said.
Ariadna Montiel goes out to defend herself in X from the harsh accusations of Maru Campos and diverts attention to the CIA.
Governor Maru Campos denies agreements with Claudia Sheinbaum for the arrest of César Jáuregui and reports tense meeting in Chihuahua.
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