The US indictment of ten Mexican officials has put Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum between a rock and a hard place. The US and Mexico have a bilateral extradition treaty. “The US justice department has charged the governor of Sinaloa and nine other current and former Mexican officials for alleged ties to the Sinaloa cartel, accusing them of aiding in the massive importation of illicit narcotics into the United States. (The Guardian)” Complicating it even more is the fact that most of the accused officials are from Sheinbaum's own Morena party. As the situation unfolds, Sheinbaum must navigate the delicate balance between maintaining party unity, public approval ratings and responding to U.S. demands for action against drug cartels.
indictment of a Mexican governor could create serious diplomatic tension. The governor of the state of Sinaloa, Rubén Rocha Moya’s indictment accuses him of collaborating with the Sinaloa Cartel dealing with narcotic shipments into the US. According to The Guardian, also indicted is a Mexican senator, former Secretary of Administration and Finance, Deputy Attorney General, head of an investigative police department, former police commander, former Secretary of Public Security, former deputy director of state police, Culiacan mayor (mayor of the capital in the state of Sinaloa), and a police commander who is charged in a kidnapping case. All of these people used government and police power to protect cartel operations which helped traffic illegal drugs - fentanyl, cocaine, heroin and meth into the US, received million of dollars in bribes and worked with the Sinaloa Cartel.
We have known for years that the drug cartels have had a significant control in the Mexican government but now this is proof it was happening in the state of Sinaloa.