U.S. Dismisses Charges against Mexican General and Return Him to Mexico

On November 17, 2020, the Attorney General of the United States William P. Barr and Fiscalía General of Mexico Alejandro Gertz Manero issued a joint statement[1] announcing that the U.S. government has decided to seek dismissal of the U.S. criminal charges against former Mexican Secretary of National Defense General Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda. Within one day, the charges were dismissed and Cienfuegos was returned to Mexico.