The trial against María Amparo Casar has been stopped. The connection hearing, scheduled for this Tuesday, has been suspended and the General Prosecutor’s Office (FGR) has, for the moment, withdrawn the file to “revise” it, as confirmed by EL PAÍS. Casar indicated that this postponement does not mean that the Prosecutor’s Office is abandoning the accusation or that it is abandoning the investigation, opened for an alleged “illicit use of powers and powers”, linked to the pension that the director of Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity (MCCI) receives from Pemex for the death of her husband. This suspension opens the door to resuming the process next year.
Ernestina Godoy’s FGR chose to slow down the pace of the process in the face of one of the government’s most critical voices. The accusations against Casar began in 2024, under the presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador. During a morning conference at the National Palace, Octavio Romero, then director of Pemex, said that the academic had been receiving irregularly for 20 years the life pension of her husband, Carlos Márquez, who worked in an oil company and died after a fall at its facilities in 2004. Romero assured that Márquez had committed suicide and that Casar had contacted the Mexico City lawyer at the time, Bernardo Bátiz (now a member of the new disciplinary tribunal), to ask him to “modify the decision, so that it is not a suicide, but rather an accident” and that thus “the payment of insurance and retirement continues”.
Following this accusation, Pemex withdrew Casar’s pension of 125,000 pesos per month (approximately $6,500) and reported her to the FGR. The director of the MCCI took refuge and on May 10, a judge agreed with her and ordered the oil company to return the benefit “unless there is a firm, jurisdictional or administrative order” to the contrary. The academic accused López Obrador of having persecuted her: “He took advantage of a family tragedy to lie, hurt her and make political profit from it.” Casar has been one of the most criticized figures since the president’s morning, who named her and her organization hundreds of times and came to define her as “a traitor to the country.”
The trial against Casar was subsequently suspended. Until September, when the FGR decided to pursue the case. However, the process was only known this Friday. The federal agency, now headed by Ernestina Godoy (former legal advisor to Claudia Sheinbaum), explained that it was analyzing “the investigation in detail, in order to verify that it was integrated in accordance with the law”. The prosecution said it acted “without bias of any kind”. “It is absolutely false that this institution operates on orders,” he stressed.
In this analysis, the FGR temporarily withdrew the file to continue examining it, which suspended the hearing against Casar. Questioned this Monday morning, President Claudia Sheinbaum avoided taking a position: “This is a matter that was made public with President López Obrador, much questioned about how he obtained the pension. I left the role of the prosecution to the prosecution, so that the prosecutor himself can explain why the criminal complaint was filed, when presenting the summons.”
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