US charges governor of Mexican state Sinaloa with drug trafficking (www.lemonde.fr)
from TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 29 Apr 23:41
https://lemmy.world/post/46223542

The US Justice Department on Wednesday, April 29, charged the governor of the Mexican state of Sinaloa and other officials with drug trafficking. The US attorney for the Southern District of New York said 10 people, including Governor Ruben Rocha Moya, are accused of working with the Sinaloa cartel to distribute “massive quantities” of narcotics to the United States.

Without mentioning this indictment, Mexico’s Foreign Ministry said it received US extradition requests for “various people.” It complained that cases like this are normally handled confidentially under bilateral treaties, rather than being announced publicly first, and said it would send a note of protest to the US embassy “over the way it was announced.”

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EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world on 30 Apr 01:19 collapse

Sounds like the US is planning to stage another kidnapping or an outright invasion of Mexico.

cmbabul@slrpnk.net on 30 Apr 02:13 next collapse

Someone just lost a bet on Polymarket

green_red_black@slrpnk.net on 30 Apr 03:01 collapse

Doubtful. Not to say it isn’t the MO (because man we don’t need to go through those history texts)

It’s just a State Governor is rather small fry for the tactic. Let’s say the US does snatch and grab the governor, what than? Even a US friendly technocrat wouldn’t suddenly mean Mexico is now a US friendly nation.

Hegar@fedia.io on 30 Apr 04:23 collapse

Mexico is a US friendly nation though.

Huge sections of USDA, customs and other government departments are based in mexico. They're our largest trading partner. Many of our largest companies have supply chains deeply integrated into mexico.

Racists are obssessed with the us/mex border but in a lot of important ways we're barely even seperate countries.