The reaction of López Obrador to know the letter of a Mexican executed in the United States

This Tuesday, a reporter read at the President's morning press conference Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the last letter what's left Edgar Tamayo Arias, a Mexican who was executed in Texas after being accused of murder of a police officer to USA

After reading, the Mexican president announced that he would seek consulates defend the citizens abroad and repeated that his government he is not in favor of the death penaltyWe will always try to defend people's lives.

The President stated that the demands that he had made Tamayo before you die so that what happened to him does not happen again. Your answer has arrived 5 years later that this man was executedHowever, your message is still valid.

"The message I want to convey to you is that if you run me, please say to all my compatriots, to all of my Mexico, that I apologize for failing and arriving in a box. mine serves as an example for other people (…) we will always be the victims of our poverty and our own color, "said the letter sent by the Mexican Pablo Antonio Castro, who was president of the Confederation of Morelenses Associations and Clubs of the United States and Canada.

In the letter dated January 7, 2014Tamayo says deeply disappointed with the efforts manufactured by the Mexican consulate and badured that cases like yours have been used by members of the embbady with propaganda purposes without this having repercussions on his legal situation.

"I do not want goal of the hand the consulate mentioned !, the truth that these people disappoint me (…) they never did anything. Whenever a civilian is going to be executed, he always wants to look good in front of the cameras for look good with the government Mexico and the compatriots"

The execution of Tamayo Arias took place on January 22, 2014. His case was filled with criticism and the calls; on the one hand because there was a debate on whether the defendant was mentally capable and punishable by the death penalty, and on the other hand, because he was never informed that he could ask for help after his arrest in 1994.

Edgar, who was 46 at the time of his execution, was one of the men 51 cases that the Government of Mexico presented in 2004 before the International Court of Justice. All cases involve people sentenced to death in the United States, without receiving during their stay criminal process consular aid in right time

Although the international court handed down a judgment in favor of the Mexicans, this did not prevent Tamayo Arias, who was Miacatlán, Morelos, has been executed. One day before this event, he wrote a posthumous letter in which he asked the authorities to avoid at all costs Let another countryman suffer the same fate as him.

In this latest letter, he also asked the Mexican consulates to respond to the needs of those sentenced to death and their families ",without waiting for the date of execution to intervene"

Given that, López Obrador at his press conference on Tuesday, a proposal will be presented to the Senate of the Republic, 50 consulates worldwide, be linked to an attorney's office exclusively responsible for the defense of millions of Mexicans living abroad.