FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2010
KLMNO Traditionally, suspectMexican BYWILLIAM BOOTH
mexico city — Mexico’s attor- ney general said Thursday that hewas calling on Interpol to help authorities capture a lawmaker suspected of having ties to a drug cartel. Mexico’s top prosecutor, Ar-
turo Chavez Chavez, vowed to arrest Julio Cesar Godoy Tosca- no, a federal deputy whose im- munity from prosecution was stripped by Congress this week.
politicians are pursued after they leave office—if at all. But Godoy became an embarrassment and liability to the political class, especially after investigators re- leased a recorded phone call of him allegedly speaking with a high-ranking member of the drug trafficking cartel known as La Familia. The cartel has emerged as
Mexico’s top methamphetamine producer from the mango and avocado farm towns of western
Michoacan, where Godoy’s step- brother is governor. At a news conference in Sep-
tember, Godoy swore his inno- cence and denied ties to the drug gang. “Enough is enough. This is
political harassment,” Godoy said, calling the pending charges ridiculous, stupid, aberrant and dumb. “I amnot a criminal.” Godoy was sworn into Con-
gress in September in spite of an arrest warrant against him. Be- fore he arrived to take the oath of
office—and slipped past security forces — Godoy had been on the lamformore than a year. Earlier this week, the lower
house of Congress voted 384 to 2 to deny the politician the gold- plated immunity that serving politicians here enjoy. Investigators say they want to
know how Godoy managed to amass more than $2 million in his bank accounts. But federal prosecutors have generally had a hard time making formal charg- es stick. They rounded up a
EZ RE Mexico enlists Interpol to help catch lawmaker allegedly linked to drug cartel
dozen mayors in Michoacan last year, but after the publicity of the mass arrests died down, they released them all, unable to make a single corruption case. The attorney general said he
had no idea where Godoy had run to. But La Familia has been shaken in recent months. In a wild firefight last week,Mexican police and troops laid siege to a cartel safehouse in Michoacan. Authorities said Thursday they believe they killed cartel leader Nazario Moreno Gonzalez but
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conceded they have not found his body. Five policemen and three civilians were also killed in the attacks. In his meeting with reporters,
the attorney general said 30,196 people have been killed in drug- related violence across the coun- try since President Felipe Calde- ron first sent troops against the cartels in his home state of Michoacan. Earlier this week, the border
town of Ciudad Juarez also broke a grim record: More than 3,000 people have been killed there this year.
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