Mexico Publishes Heavily Redacted Probe of Exonerated General

Mexico Publishes Heavily Redacted Probe of Exonerated General
Secretary of Defense Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda arrives for a review of the troops that will participate in the Independence Day parade, in Mexico City, on Sept. 14, 2016. Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo
The Associated Press
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MEXICO CITY—One day after Mexico angered U.S. officials by publishing an entire 751-page U.S. case file against former Defense Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos, the Mexican prosecutors who exonerated him released their own version—but with so many pages wholly blacked out it was almost impossible to tell what they'd found.

The report released Jan. 17 by the Mexican Attorney General’s Office included a 226-page stretch with every page blacked out, followed by a 275-page stretch of blacked-out pages.