They linked the CJNG “Pino” to the trial for murdering journalist Julio Valdivia in Veracruz

The Veracruz State Attorney General's Office (FGE) announced that they linked Gustavo Abigail “N”, alias El Pino, to the trial for the alleged crime of murder of a journalist.

El Pino was arrested on March 31 in the state of Puebla by elements of the Secretariat of the Navy (SEMAR), the National Intelligence Center (CNI), the Secretariat of Citizen Security and Protection (SSPC) and the National Anti-Kidnapping Commission (CONASE). He was later transferred to the state of Veracruz to answer for his alleged involvement in the crime.

The FGE announced that this link was due to the crime of classified homicide against the journalist, although it was also classified as one of the main generators of violence in the state of Oaxaca.

This crime was recorded on September 9, 2020. The alleged murderer reportedly deprived journalist Julio Valdivia Rodríguez of his life in the municipality of Tezonapa, a fact that was recorded in criminal proceedings 224/2020.

The body of Valdivia Rodríguez, a journalist for El Mundo de Córdoba, was found in the mountains between Veracruz and Oaxaca, near the train tracks located between the communities of Motzorongo and Paraíso, where they also found the motorcycle on which he was riding. According to reports in local newspapers, he was beheaded.

This municipality was identified as one of the most risky to practice journalism due to the pressures and threats of criminal groups. In fact, the journalist had previously been threatened, but he did not file any complaints to the State Commission for the Care and Protection of Journalists, as there were no previous incidents that he considered a risk to his safety.

On the other hand, the Pino was also ratified the precautionary measure of informal preventive detention for one year, according to the Prosecutor's Office in a statement through its social networks, in addition to six months of complementary investigation.

State authorities also identified him as the leader of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG) on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. In addition, he is the son of former deputy for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) Gustavo Díaz Sánchez, el Gato, who was arrested in November last year along with two of his children. Gustavo was arrested for murder and outrages against the authority in the Gulf of Mexico.

When El Gato was arrested, inhabitants of the municipalities where he practiced, demonstrated against the arrest and closed circulations and burned tires to demand his release.

Similarly, the safe houses of the detainee were searched in the state of Oaxaca in recent days. The raids were carried out in the Papaloapan Basin to follow up alleged CJNG crimes.

The security elements arrived in the town of Estación el Refugio, at the El Canutillo ranch and in a winery in the same municipality. In them, drugs were insured along with weapons and machinery with reports of theft.

The weapon found was a .9 millimeter pistol along with useful cartridges and numerous doses of methamphetamine and packaged crystallized. Construction tools and machinery were also found.

Likewise, numerous auto parts of motor vehicles, tractors and heavy machinery that have been reported stolen, as well as stolen tires and license plates; lastly, tools that were apparently used for the alteration of cargo vehicles.

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