Institutional Revolutionary Party Distances Itself From Arrested Drug Suspect Associated Press
go to original August 10, 2012

Mexico City newspapers reported the discovery of pictures of Enrique Peña Nieto (L) in which he appears chummy with "Rafa" Celaya Rafael Humberto Valenzuela who was arrested yesterday in Madrid. (Facebook)

MEXICO CITY — The party that won Mexico's July presidential elections says a drug trafficking suspect arrested in Spain had tried to win the party's nomination for a congressional seat, but was rejected.

The Institutional Revolutionary Party known as the PRI says Rafael Humberto Celaya Valenzuela vied for the nomination in northern Sonora state.

PRI candidate Enrique Pena Nieto won the July 1 presidential elections. But the PRI said in a statement Friday that Celaya Valenzuela had not held a post in Pena Nieto's campaign.

The PRI also said it "does not approve" of any illegal actions by its members.

Spanish police announced Friday they had arrested Celaya Valenzuela and three other suspected members of the Sinaloa cartel in Madrid as part of a cocaine smuggling bust.

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