Benjamín Robles Montoya, a member of the national leadership of the Labor Party (PT), made this point because, he said, the government of Oaxaca “failed the people”. He specified that the Attorney General's Office (FGR) must know that Noé Jara Cruz, the governor's brother, was Secretary of Government and Territory of the Oaxaca municipality until last November, “from where he dedicated himself to visiting municipalities with officials and members of other political parties to secure support in exchange for votes during the recent recall process”. “He has been accused of embezzlement of public funds, corruption, influence peddling in public tenders, and opaque management of funds for works, such as the Municipal Administrative City, which started with a debt of 400 million pesos and will reach 1,800 million to be paid over 20 years,” he stated. In the Labor Party (PT), “we are not asking for governorships or spaces of power before the federal government, we only demand that, in the case of Oaxaca, the Attorney General's Office (FGR) act against Salomón Jara for being an ally and beneficiary of El Mencho and his Jalisco New Generation Cartel,” affirmed Benjamín Robles Montoya, a member of the national collective leadership of the PT. In an interview with El Financiero, he revealed that publicly and in political tables with the Executive, it has been raised that “President Claudia Sheinbaum must expose her government for defending the narcogovernor of Oaxaca, who has so much damaged the movement of the 'Fourth Transformation'”. “It goes against the principles of the movement and there is sufficient public information that, through people, like his brother Noé Jara, the CJNG paid for his campaign as a candidate and the FGR must do its job”. The also PT leader in Oaxaca—who participated as a representative of his party in the tables for the negotiation of electoral reforms at the National Palace—argued that “at the time we supported his candidacy, but due to his ties with crime and organized crime, his nepotism and corruption as public policy, we drew a line a long time ago”. He emphasized that “it cannot be that, despite the innumerable accusations of his ties with criminals, he is shielded and protected by federal power to continue in power and in the abuse of power”. Robles Montoya maintained that “now that they captured El Mencho, in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec there were blockades, burning of vehicles, and Salomón Jara did not do so until a day later, because his partners who paid for his campaign did not give him permission”. “That is the cartel he is linked to. And in other parts of the state, he and his officials have had that relationship since before his government.”
