Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion | Officers and agents died in a car crash after six clandestine synthetic drug labs were raided in Morelos.
A few days ago, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that she was looking into the deaths of two U.S. Embassy officials and two Mexican agents, all killed in a car accident in the north of the country following a drug raid.
The victims of Sunday’s accident were part of Chihuahua’s State Investigation Agency (AEI) and a training program with the US embassy, the state’s attorney general César Jáuregui Moreno said.
Among the deceased are AEI regional director Pedro Ramón Oseguera Cervantes and his bodyguard Manuel Genaro Méndez Montes, as well as two instructors from the United States Embassy in Mexico.
The accident occurred on the Chihuahua–Ciudad Juárez highway, when the officials were returning from an operation in the municipality of Morelos, where state authorities dismantled a drug-processing laboratory, according to initial reports.
The two U.S. officials are now identified as CIA agents, involved in a counter-cartel/counter-drug-lab mission.
The CIA’s involvement was confirmed Tuesday by a U.S. official and two people with knowledge of the crash who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence matters. The identity of the two Americans as CIA officers was earlier reported by the Washington Post.
Confirmation of the CIA’s involvement comes after days of contradictions from Mexican and U.S. authorities about the role U.S. officials played in an operation to bust a narco-laboratory in northern Chihuahua.
The lack of clarity by authorities reignited a debate over the extent of U.S. involvement in Mexican security operations at a moment when Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has come under extreme pressure by President Trump’s administration to crack down on cartels.
The U.S. Embassy has declined to identify who the U.S. officials were or which entity of the U.S. government they worked for but said the officials were “supporting Chihuahua state authorities’ efforts to combat cartel operations.”
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