Mexico Federal Police Intended to Kill CIA Agents in August 2012 Attack Gustavo Castillo Garcia - La Jornada
go to original September 11, 2014

Mexican marines inspect the bullet-riddled armoured U.S. embassy SUV on a road near the town of Tres Marias, on the outskirts of Cuernavaca in August, 2012. (Reuters/Margarito Perez)

Records of the Judiciary of the Federation (PJF), as part of the trial of 14 members of the Federal Police who participated in an attack on two members of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and a Mexican Navy captain on August 24, 2012, state that there was no error in the attack and that the defendants "intended to kill those who were the occupants of the diplomatic vehicle, because in their opinion they were 'dangerous criminals'." The chase and attack stretched for miles along the Mexico-Cuernavaca federal highway.

The surveys conducted by personnel from the Attorney General's Office (PGR) and the reconstructions determined that the lives of the three victims were always at risk during the attack, as the agents of the Federal Police never stopped shooting and opened fire with intent to deprive the U.S. agents and the Mexican Navy officer of their lives. ... The U.S. agents and Mexican Navy officer were unarmed.

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