On Monday, Mexico’s attorney general's office announced that the top federal prosecutors from 21 of the country’s 31 states and Mexico City resigned on Friday. The resignations come amid growing complaints over the lack of prosecutions against Mexico’s drug traffickers, as well as rampant corruption among federal officials.
Attorney General Marisela Morales said in a statement: “The purge is fundamental within the [attorney general's office] to give citizens the results they legitimately demand. The Mexico of today requires that those of us in public office act with total dedication and responsibility of service.”
In July, Morales announced that in her late last month first 100 days on the job, 462 prosecutors and other government officials had been fired and another 111 had been charged with various crimes, including fraud, theft, abuse of power and falsification of documents.
At the time of her press conference, Morales said that another 386 employees were in the process of being terminated.
However, Morales herself has been criticized as many high-profile drug-related prosecutions have fallen apart, including the case against the flamboyant former mayor of Tijuana, Jorge Hank Rhon, who was arrested in June.
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