Mayor of Cocula to be removed from PRD for cartel links

The National Executive Committee of the Democratic Revolutionary Party is considering the expulsion of Erick Ulises Ramírez Crespo, mayor of Cocula, Guerrero, arrested yesterday for alleged links with the Guerreros Unidos cartel.

He joins the former mayor of Iguala, José Luis Abarca, also from the PRD, who has been linked with organized crime and is now in jail.

The so-called protocol of ethics and legality of the PRD applied to Ramírez Crespo calls for a full-fledged cooperation with the authorities in the investigations against him.

Today at 1:00 p.m., the PRD will hold a press conference headed by its national leader, Carlos Navarrete Ruiz, in order to express full support to the investigations.

"The PRD has not part, or will have, in concealing nothing and nobody," expresses the document that will be read today in the national headquarters of the party.