The Silence Around General Mérida

El Pais

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The phrase was pidiary: “They will know why.” Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum referred to General Gerardo Mérida’s chosen handover to U.S. authorities in mid-May. In the plural it included Merida’s former cabinetmate in Sinaloa, Enrique Díaz, former secretary of finance, whose fate seemed identical to that of Mérida, but which is still a mystery today: he has not appeared before any judge and it is not clear where he is or in the capacity of…