Ramon Martin Huerta

Ramón Martín Huerta (San Juan de los Lagos, Jalisco, January 24, 1957-Xonacatlán, State of Mexico; September 21, 2005) was a Mexican politician who served as governor of the State of Guanajuato to the resignation of the then governor Vicente Fox who decided to seek the Presidency of the Republic and Secretary of Federal Public Security.

He studied business administration at the Universidad del Bajío, León campus.

Death

Martín Huerta died on September 21, 2005, when the Bell 412-EP helicopter with registration XC-PFI in which he was going to flag down the new guards of the La Palma maximum security prison (formerly Almoloya), crashed in the mountainous area of Llano Largo, La Cima or Cumbres Las Penas, near San Miguel Mimiapan, in the Mexican municipality of Xonacatlán.

According to the first expert reports, the cause of the accident was that the pilot maneuvered through a fog bank that forced him to lower his "navigation roof" and deviate, in this maneuver he lost visual contact with the terrain and hit a forested hill.

The expert report on the accident was classified by the federal government as confidential information for 12 years, which increased widespread suspicions that it could be an attack perpetrated by criminal groups. The crashed device was in the middle of a controversy involving a former commissioner of the Federal Preventive Police, who was accused of acquiring it irregularly.

Accident investigations

Recently the IFAI ordered the PGR to partially open the file on the death of Ramón Martín Huerta to support the official version of the accident. However, the federal prosecutor's office did not comply and, in the opinion of the IFAI, committed a series of irregularities while analyzing whether the opening of the file was legally appropriate, so an internal investigation is currently being carried out to determine responsibilities and allow part of it to be opened to the public. of the preliminary investigation.