"I'm Going to Beat the Hell Out of Marina," Jaime Bonilla Says About the Governor in New Video
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The video, leaked by outlet Pie de Nota, shows former governor Jaime Bonilla threatening Marina del Pilar, Baja California's sitting Morena governor, amid a 2022 feud.

This article by Redacción/SinEmbargo originally appeared in the July 27, 2026 edition of SinEmbargo, a leading independent Mexican digital news outlet.

Mexico City, July 27 (SinEmbargo).— The former governor of Baja California, Jaime Bonilla Valdez, was exposed in a video leaked by the outlet Pie de Nota, in which he is heard saying he is going to “beat the hell out of” the current state governor, Marina del Pilar, whom he has accused since 2022 of maintaining ties to drug trafficking.

“It’s real easy, it’s real easy. I’m going to beat the hell out of Marina. The whole damn time I have left to live, I’m going to keep fucking with her,” Bonilla says in the footage, which was captured by a surveillance camera placed in what appears to be a meeting room.

According to what is shown in the material, the former governor was talking with two unidentified people, to whom he even boasts of having sent audits to all the former officials of his administration.

“Pie de Nota obtained a video in which former governor Jaime Bonilla assures that as long as he is alive he will ‘beat the hell out of’ the current Governor. The reason? A multimillion-dollar contract that was canceled over irregularities,” the outlet stated on social media, and announced that tomorrow it will reveal all the details of the matter.

Así inició la saga de audios contra Marina del Pilar: Pie de Nota obtuvo un video donde el ex gobernador Jaime Bonilla asegura que mientras él tenga vida le va a “romper su madre” a la actual gobernadora.
¿El motivo?
Un multimillonario contrato que le fue cancelado por… pic.twitter.com/rYdxbCmXnW

— Pie de Nota (@Piedenota) July 27, 2026

Bonilla’s leaked video adds to the feud he has maintained against Marina del Pilar, which dates back to 2022, when the former official, then serving as a Senator of the Republic, took the floor of the Permanent Commission to accuse the Governor of Baja California of having made a pact with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), an accusation that came amid an escalation of violence in the state.

Bonilla asserted on that occasion that “the CJNG made a complaint to the Governor through banners, telling her she had broken the agreement,” and concluded: “that violence recorded last weekend never happened under my government. What I said, I ratify here in this Permanent Commission.”

Later, in responding to questions from the opposition, he reiterated that “what happened in Baja California was the product of an arrangement with the cartels, in particular the CJNG, which made a complaint to the Governor, who broke the agreement. That did not happen under my government.”

At that time, Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda rejected the accusations and lamented that there was an attempt to derive political advantage from the situation. Without directly mentioning Jaime Bonilla, she referred to the circulation of an alleged communiqué from organized crime and maintained that there were those who sought to generate alarm among the population. “We must not make political use of violence; those of us who love Baja California must be united and we want unity,” she affirmed, while asking citizens to follow the information issued by official sources.

Recently, Del Pilar has been at the center of a new controversy over leaked audios in which she converses with alleged intermediaries of US authorities, to whom she offers information in exchange for resolving the situation with her visa, which was revoked amid reports of an alleged investigation in Washington that authorities in that country have not confirmed.

The governor claims the recordings were the product of a “trap” orchestrated by Jaime Bonilla who, according to her, proposed that she meet with people who would address the matter of her visa at the end of 2025, but she later discovered that they were individuals who, she said, pretended to be agents or liaisons of the United States in order to record the conversation and use it for political purposes in the current pre-electoral context.

The governor maintained that the audios were edited and taken out of context to construct a narrative of discredit, and she denied having handed over information that would compromise national security and rejected the accusations of treason against the Homeland.

“I have always told them to begin a process to recover the document,” said Governor Marina del Pilar. “It was very natural, it was through WhatsApp, they told me I was being sought by an agency and I said of course… they came here to the Tijuana offices,” the governor recounted about the meeting held on December 15, 2025, which, according to what she indicated, is documented in her work agenda.

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