FILE PHOTO - Javier Duarte de Ochoa, former governor of Mexican state Veracruz, speaks during a court appearance for extradition proceedings in Guatemala City, Guatemala July 4, 2017. REUTERS/Luis Echeverria
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Former Mexican governor Javier Duarte, in jail awaiting trial on graft charges, has embarked on a hunger strike to protest the "witch hunt" against him, according to a letter he wrote that was published by local TV on Thursday.
Javier Duarte, who until last year governed the Gulf coast state of Veracruz for President Enrique Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), is suspected of siphoning off millions of dollars during his tenure.
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