The Shadow of the Past: Accusations Follow Former Mexican Prosecutor After ⁢Prison release

Edgar Veytia, once the powerful‍ attorney ⁤general of Mexico’s Pacific coast state of Nayarit, walked free from a U.S. ⁤prison in february 2024, having served⁢ slightly ‍less than eight years of a ⁣10-year sentence. His release marks a new chapter,but it hasn’t closed the ⁣book on the⁤ serious allegations that defined his‍ time in⁣ power.

Veytia’s downfall came in 2017 when he was arrested in San Diego and later pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges. U.S. prosecutors accused him of accepting bribes from the H-2 cartel, a splinter group of the Beltrán Leyva association, to protect their ⁢operations and target rivals, including factions of the Sinaloa cartel led by‍ Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada. This stands in contrast to the conviction of former Mexican security