The New Yorker fables the case of Miroslava Breach with fabricated testimonies by FEADLE

Melissa del Bosque builds her story with interviews with Javier Corral and Breach’s friends, as well as slandering fabricated culprits

By Guadalupe Lizarraga

The American weekly magazine The New Yorker published on its April 17th, 2023 edition, an article by Melissa del Bosque about the murder of Mexican journalist Miroslava Breach Velducea, perpetrated on March 23rd, 2017.

It does so as a long fable in which Melissa del Bosque creates situations from the context of hostility that surrounded Breach and combines them with the fabrications made up by the Special Prosecutor for Crimes against Freedom of Expression (FEADLE), taken up by the State Attorney’s Office of Chihuahua, under the administration of Javier Corral. US readers must be aware that, unlike the US system, where state attorneys are independent from the governor, in Mexico governors exert great influence on the performance of the Attorney’s Office.

The journalist talks about the existence of fentanyl and methamphetamine laboratories «to satisfy US demand.» However, she does not provide any proof or indication that Chínipas is part of said industry for this specific type of narcotics, in addition to pointing to the Los Salazar group as the local bosses controlling drug dealing and traffic in that region of Chihuahua.

One of the inaccuracies with which the article also begins is when it points out that Breach was driving her SUV to report in Chínipas and the surrounding towns. However, this information has been clarified in other reports on the murder, where residents of Chínipas were unaware of who Breach was, and only knew about her because of the murder. Others, those able to identify her said that «for years she had not gone to that town». Even when Breach was questioned by Alfredo Piñera Guevara about her sources, she mentioned her relatives, and reiterated she was originally from that municipality.

Among the inventions that Del Bosque takes up for her The New Yorker story is the fabricated testimony by former governor Javier Corral who, back in May 27th, 2017, under pressure from Breach’s sisters to advance the probe, intimidated and coerced the former mayor of Chínipas, Hugo Amed Schultz Alcaraz. Subsequently, the FEADLE threatened Schultz to imprison his eldest son for kidnapping, if he did not agree to incriminate himself in the Breach case. They even offered him an abbreviated trial with which the FEADLE agents would help him get out with a pre-release benefit.

The FEADLE agent who threatened Schultz was Iris Gabriela Santoyo Cuervo, and she was the one who also fabricated Édgar Salazar Gaxiola as a protected witness with the codename ‘Apollo’. Édgar is the son of Crispín Salazar Zamorano. However, Del Bosque ignores the information published in reports and interviews with documentary evidence that reveals the fabrication and torture of FEADLE, but also, without any proof, reproduces adjectives to qualify Schultz as a «drug lackey», attributing them to Breach.

According to her article, Del Bosque interviewed a group of journalist who were also friends of Miroslava, who called themselves The Bunker, to carry out an alternate investigation. Del Bosque also consulted with Javier Corral and Mexican magazine Proceso correspondent in Chihuahua, Patricia Mayorga, who merely regurgitates the fabrications coming from former governor Corral. Even Mayorga has been accused of plagiarizing Breach to also present herself as a victim of the case, and made false statements as a witness before the Public Ministry. That was also the case with Alfredo Piñera Guevara, the former National Action Party spokesman who recorded Breach and lied when saying that she had a chat over the phone with Hugo Schultz and that he had send Piñera the recording by message.

Los Angeles Press has the complete file of the investigation made up of 26 volumes, and has interviewed the man sentenced for the murder, Juan Carlos Moreno Ochoa, aka ‘El Larry’, who was brutally tortured in front of his minor children by four police officers during his arrest without resistance. The Intelligence Division of the National Attorney’s Office, the FGR, under the orders of the FEADLE agents, to declare himself to be part of the Los Salazar criminal group. Los Angeles Press also interviewed Hugo Amed Schultz, sentenced to eight years in an abbreviated trial under duress and psychological torture to avoid fabricated charges of kidnapping against his son, and interviewed Édgar Salazar Gaxiola, tortured by the same FEADLE agents.