MEXICO CITY – One day after Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office announced it was dropping the drug trafficking case against its former defense secretary, Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday that the U.S.
Drug Enforcement Administration had “fabricated” the accusations against retired Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos.López Obrador suggested that there could have been political motivations behind U.S.
authorities' arrest of Cienfuegos at Los Angeles International Airport in October, noting that the investigation had been ongoing for years, but the arrest came shortly before U.S.