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US charges Mexican officials with drug trafficking
May 3, 2026
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A grand jury in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York indicted 10 current and former Mexican officials for importing large amounts of drugs into the United States, along with related offenses. The officials include the current governor of Sinaloa state, Rubén Rocha Moya, as well as a Sinaloa deputy attorney general, a former Sinaloa secretary of public security, a former deputy director of the Sinaloa State Police, and a federal senator.
The indictment accuses the officials of ties to one faction of the Sinaloa Cartel, Los Chapitos, run by the sons of Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán, who is serving a life prison term in the US. In a seeming reference to the fact that Rocha Moya and others of those indicted are from Mexico's ruling MORENA party, President Claudia Sheinbaum said: [I]t it is evident that the objective of these charges by the Department of Justice is political We will not allow any foreign government todecide the future of the Mexican people. (Map: Google)
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