Godoy says Campos blamed Jáuregui; the governor denies it

Attorney General Ernestina Godoy says Chihuahua Gov. Maru Campos came to her office and blamed former state prosecutor César Jáuregui for letting CIA agents take part in an anti-drug operation at El Pinal, in the municipality of Morelos. Godoy said so on Friday:

"I met with the governor of Chihuahua in my office. She asked me for a meeting and I was glad to receive her."

Campos denies it. "So they can't tell me I accused him," the governor said. She maintains that the federal government already had information on the former prosecutor and that she did not know the U.S. agents were there.

Godoy adds that the governor described Jáuregui as "corrupt," with "casinos" and "front men," and that a new line of investigation at the federal prosecutor's office, the FGR, followed. Those are the attorney general's words about a private conversation. No public document backs them, and Jáuregui's side could not be reached. His defense has called the case political persecution.

The FGR put out a statement the same day with that version: Campos "blamed the former state attorney general."

President Claudia Sheinbaum told her Friday morning news conference that Campos said something similar to her when they met Sept. 19 in Ciudad Juárez: "It wasn't me, it was the former prosecutor." The talk got tense, Sheinbaum said, and both women raised their voices.

Jáuregui is in custody under two arrest orders. One comes from the Chihuahua prosecutor's office, for illegal exercise of public service. The other comes from the FGR, for treason: it says he let four CIA agents work with the state investigations agency from October 2025 until the April operation. Campos called that federal charge "disproportionate."

Jáuregui is presumed innocent. A federal hearing at which a judge will decide whether to bind him over on the treason charge resumes Saturday at 15:00.