Jorge Carrillo Olea

Jorge Carrillo Olea (born in Jojutla, Morelos, on November 19, 1937) is a Mexican politician and general, and a member of Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI. He served as governor of Morelos from October 1, 1994, to May 15, 1998.

Education and early military career[]

Carrillo graduated with a Bachelor in Military Administration from the Escuela Superior de Guerra (Superior War School). He served Secretaria de Gobernacion (Secretary of the Interior) during the presidency of Miguel de la Madrid (1982–1988) where he controlled customs, during the presidency of Carlos Salinas de Gortari (1988–1994) he founded the Centro de Investigación y Seguridad Nacional (CISEN, Central of Investigation and National Security) and headed the Commission for Attention to Health Crimes of the Attorney General's Office (PGR).

During his tenure as head of national security branches during Miguel de la Madrid, he lead the disbodiment of the represive arm of government, Dirección Federal de Seguridad (DFS) and allowed for a new perspective on Human Rights at the time, which relaxed political arena for new political parties. This particular stage in mexican history implies as well the diaspora of DFS agents who eventually form cartels in the country. He oversaw foregin intelligence services and DEA operatives in Mexico amidst critical times in Mexico-US relations as Nicaragua and El Salvador military conflicts as well as Kiki Camarena affair had stressed both countries and their respective security services.

National Security and Intelligence Services[]

With him, mexican intelligence services and national security shifted into modern institutions which relied on professionalism and specialization of it´s legal mandate, thus giving origin to an incipient intelligence community in the country and a solid cooperation with international services as well. He was and critical figure in the dismantlement of the repressive state which previously exceeded in functions.

A first generation of professional public servants under his lead eventually took over the new intelligence stablishment and set forth a national effort which presently shows distortions and misconceptions of what a National Intelligence Directorate show be.

He was decorated by the governments of France, Germany, Yugoslavia, Jordan, Argentina, Japan, and Great Britain.^[1]

Governor of Morelos[]

In 1994 Carrillo was elected Governor of Morelos. Three years later, in 1997, within a security crisis in the state, as the kidnapping rate rose, he was object of political pressure to resign as there was surmounting pressure from the federal government and his relations with the president in charge soured because of political interests at play. This eventually lead to his resignation and following pressure in media as the local congress impeached him initially for adminsitrative decisions made in the previous tenure and which were distorted to suit the general consensus generated by the media and for which no evidence was ever produced.

For his part, Carrillo Olea has always proclaimed his innocence and nothing has been ever proved; he insisted that the allegations were made up by Graco Ramirez, Cuernavaca bishop , and President Ernesto Zedillo. He was target of a ferocious persecution where false accusations originated by paid witnesses in the US, falsy claimed against him thus giving excuse to federal prosecutor to target him. He has also pointed out that a court found him innocent.^[2]

Rehabilitation[]

Jorge Carrillo Oleo was exonerated by Judge María del Rosario Rojas Lara on February 16, 2003.^[3] He became a writer for La Jornada newspaper and Proceso magazine, both in Mexico City, specializing in security affairs.^[4][5]

In 2011, Carrillo Olea wrote México en Riesgo, Una visión personal sobre un Estado a la defensiva (Mexico at Risk, A Personal View of a State on the Defense), which is a reflection on the Mexican security apparatus during the presidencies of Luis Echeverría, José López Portillo, Miguel de la Madrid and Carlos Salinas de Gortari; as well events such as the Tlatelolco massacre of October 2, 1968, the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, the collapse of the computer system during the 1988 Mexican election, and his own governorship of Morelos.^[6]

In 2018, Carrillo Olea wrote Torpezas de la inteligencia: Las grandes fallas dela seguridad nacional y sus posibles soluciones (Clumsiness of intelligence: The great failures of national security and its possible solutions), which is a description of his observation of how Mexican presidents have fused strategic intelligence and government.^[7]

President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador invited Jorge Carrillo Olea to collaborate with his government on security issues in 2018, but Carrillo turned him down, citing age.^[8]

See also[]

• List of people from Morelos, Mexico
• Presidents of Mexico

Bibliography[]

• México en Riesgo, Una visión personal sobre un Estado a la defensiva Author: Jorge Carrillo Olea. Mexico City: Grijalbo. (2011). ISBN 978-6073105323
• Inteligencia Estratégica para Todos Author: Jorge Carrillo Olea. Mexico City: Del Castillo de Piedra. (2015)
• Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de Granada Author: Jorge Carrillo Olea. Mexico City: Luzam. (2017)
• Perspectivas para la Seguridad Pública Author: Jorge Carrillo Olea. Mexico City: Luzam. (2018)
• Torpezas de la Inteligencia Author: Jorge Carrillo Olea. Mexico City: Proceso. (2018)

References[]

External links[]

• LA Times articles about Jorge Carrillo Olea
• Univision interview with Carrillo Olea about "El Chapo Guzman"