Government Refuses to Reveal Mexico's Most Wanted List to the Public El Daily Post
go to original August 26, 2015

Mexico’s Most Wanted List shrank recently, but not because of a successful sting operation or a spectacular arrest. Instead, the Enrique Peña Nieto administration has removed the names of 10 cartel leaders, lieutenants and kidnappers whose Most Wanted designation dates back over a decade.

Ten men who were among the most sought after criminals during the two previous governments were removed from the Most Wanted List recently. (See graphic below)

The list of 122 top priorities for Mexico crime-fighting institutions no longer features several once-notorious targets, including Sinaloa cartel underboss Juan Jose Esparragoza, alias “El Azul,” Juarez cartel leader Juan Pablo Ledezma, Knights Templar leader Ignacio Renteria Andrade and La Linea boss Juan Pablo Guijarrillo Fragozam. These men were once on the government’s Most Wanted List of priority targets, a list of 30 notorious criminals.

Four of the current Most Wanted Men (a list of 30 criminals) are Sinaloa cartel leaders Joaquin Guzman Loera and Mario Ismael Zambada Garcia, Beltran Leyva gang underboss Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho,” and Francisco Javier Hernandez Garcia, alias “El Panchito,” of the Zetas crime gang.

This list of priority objectives released to Spanish-language news site Animal Politico as a result of a public information request submitted earlier this year, only included four men. The Federal Attorney General’s Office (PGR) says it has a list of its top 30 objectives remaining at large. This list was pared down from its original list of 122 cited by the PGR at the beginning of the Peña Nieto administration. But that list was never presented to the public.



The PGR had taken the position that only four of the names on the list could be made public and the other 26 should remain confidential despite an order from the Public Information Institute (INAI) that it must reveal the full names of the entire list.

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