DEA case against general ‘fabricated’

MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Friday that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration had “fabricated” drug trafficking accusations against his country’s former defense minister and then his government published what he said was the entire case file provided by U.S. authorities when they sent him back to Mexico.

The U.S. government dropped its charges against retired Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos in November. Lopez Obrador said Friday that the U.S.’s evidence had no value to prove a crime.