US charges governor of Mexican state Sinaloa with drug trafficking
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from TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 29 Apr 2026 23:41
https://lemmy.world/post/46223542
from TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 29 Apr 2026 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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Sounds like the US is planning to stage another kidnapping or an outright invasion of Mexico.
Someone just lost a bet on Polymarket
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.
Mexico is not a client state, yeah for sure. It's not like belarus or hungary's relationship with russia.
The threats are all on the US side, and they’re all from Trump.
Where are they going to send Mexicans home if they arrest them in Mexico ? 🤔
What even is the point of charging people that never entered the US?
They can kidnap and imprison them.
More realistically, it means they can’t ever get near the US, and it puts pressure on Mexico because of it.
Well, they never really needed an excuse to do that; Guantanamo already exists.
It’s a way of threatening Sheinbaum with futher interference.