Last week the DOJ indicted Mexican Governor Ruben Rocha Moya along with nine current and former Mexican officials for participating “in a corrupt and violent drug trafficking conspiracy with the Cartel to import massive amounts of fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine from Mexico into the United States.” {GO DEEP} This has put Mexican Governor Claudia Sheinbaum in a precarious position.
Both President Sheinbaum and Governor Rocha Moya are from the Moreno political party in Mexico. Following the indictment, Sheinbaum said she would not assist in any extradition effort of Governor Rocha and denounced the U.S. indictment; however, she said the federal government within Mexico would launch their own independent investigation.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum denounced the U.S. prosecution of a sitting Mexican governor and other officials on drug trafficking charges as “political,” and said Thursday that Mexico would not comply with Washington’s demands that the accused be arrested and extradited to the United States.
“We are not permitting a foreign government to say what is the future of Mexico,” said a defiant Sheinbaum, who repeatedly assailed U.S. “meddling” in the incendiary case. (more)
There is considerable support within Mexico to eliminate the corrupt activity of the Cartels who many admit are in control of large sectors of their regional and federal government. As a consequence, many Mexicans support the position of President Trump and the Dept of Justice in prosecuting Governor Rocha Moya if there is evidence to support it.
Today, Sinaloa Governor Rocha Moya said he would step down from his position as the federal investigation of the claims get underway.
Ruben Rocha Moya, the governor of Sinaloa since 2021, and nine current or former high-ranking Mexican officials were charged in a five-count indictment unsealed Wednesday with allegedly helping a faction of the cartel led by the Chapitos, the sons of Joaquin Guzman Loera — also known as El Chapo.
Local lawmakers approved Rocha Moya’s request to take a leave of absence on Saturday and appointed Yeraldine Bonilla Valverde as interim governor. Until now, Bonilla Valverde served as Sinaloa’s Secretary of Government.
Prosecutors in New York allege Rocha Moya met with the Chapitos prior to his election and assured them that if elected, he would put officials friendly to their drug trafficking operations into power. Cartel members stole ballot boxes and kidnapped or intimidated opponents to drop out of the race to ensure his victory, according to the indictment. (read more)
Many of those who understand the dynamic are saying Rocha Moya’s official decision to take a leave of absence looks more like a move to go into hiding in order to avoid any U.S. military operation that might seek to capture him.
As noted by Leon Barrena Rodriquez, “Sheinbaum and AMLO have decided that a total diplomatic rupture with the U.S. is a smaller price to pay than the existential threat of Governor Rocha “spitting” in a New York courtroom. They are gambling on the assumption that Washington lacks the will for forceful extraction. This is a fatal error.
Mexico City operates under the dangerous delusion that the Trump administration can still be “managed” with paperwork and delays, refusing to acknowledge that the decision to dismantle Mexico’s narco-political architecture was finalized months ago. The escalation pathway we predicted is no longer a hypothetical, but it is now in full force.
Morena appears to believe the United States can still be pacified with diplomatic phone calls, curated “mañaneras,” or the transactional arrest of a few cartel operatives. But the game has changed, and the rules have been rewritten. The “sovereignty” rhetoric and the FGR’s claims of a lack of evidence are merely masks for a regime willing to incinerate its international credibility and domestic security to keep the secrets of the movement buried. In this, they shall not succeed. The refusal to acknowledge the gravity of the DOJ’s evidence only accelerates the timeline for a more direct American intervention”. (Twitter)
It is highly likely that President Trump does not need a Maduro-style military operation to gain custody of Rocha Moya. In fact, the United State has multiple angles of economic pressure that can be applied to force President Sheinbaum to deliver Moya to U.S. authorities.
For the past six months top level officials from both the U.S. and Mexico have been organizing a bilateral trade agreement to replace the trilateral USMCA that includes Canada.
Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Canadian trade team have been shut out of any substantive discussions on how the U.S-Canada trade will be impacted if/when U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer tells congress of the formal decision to end the USMCA.
This backdrop sets the stage for enhanced pressure against Mexico if President Sheinbaum refuses extradition, or if the Mexican investigation is simply a corrupt whitewash. The evidence within the U.S. indictment of Rocha Moya is strong.
Financial sanctions can pause or end remittances to Mexico. Closed or enhanced border security measures can severely curtail Mexican exports. National Security tariffs, now fully supported by the U.S. Supreme Court are yet another option. President Trump has multiple approaches within economic leverage to force Mexico to comply with an extradition order.
The bottom line is that President Trump wants a lawful and secure North America and the Mexican cartels are a direct threat to that goal. No one really doubts the cartel influence in regional and federal politics within Mexico; however, addressing that cartel influence is another kettle-o-fish all together.
[…] “The crisis has now physically shifted to Palenque, the true command-and-control center of the Morena movement. Logistics monitoring confirms that Mexican Navy jets have been operating a high-frequency shuttle to and from Chiapas, facilitating the extraction of Governor Rocha Moya for an emergency summit with former president AMLO. This use of military assets to transport an indicted official to a private ranch for a “war council” is a blunt display of state protection. It confirms that the Sheinbaum administration is not merely observing the law, but deploying the full weight of the Mexican military to ensure that Rocha remains out of reach while the “Palenque Pact” is finalized.
The regime’s defense of Rocha is now absolute and unified. By rejecting the U.S. charges as “politically motivated” and demanding “irrefutable evidence” while simultaneously blocking CJNG extraditions, the government is building a fortress around its internal secrets. This is no longer a legal debate between two countries, but a pivot to a siege mentality. The Sheinbaum administration has calculated that the risk of a diplomatic break with the U.S. is preferable to the existential threat of Rocha “spitting” in a New York courtroom. The “sovereignty” rhetoric is the public mask for a fundamental decision: the regime will burn its international credibility to ensure that the secrets of the 4T stay buried in Palenque. Mexico now holds its breath.” ~ León Barrena Rodríguez
Innocent people don’t step aside.
that opinion does not likely count at all, in a legal court.
imho
Good thing it’s a comment section; FFS you people pop up every where.
What he said is factually true. Easy, pull your claws in. Jeebers.
Exactly right! Thank you!
The Bucket™️ They are a touchy bunch.
You are correct. Thank you for saying so.
Anyone that doesn’t think PDJT knows exactly what he’s doing to fix the Republic, aren’t paying close attention.
He’s taking care of the international enemies because it’s clear the national enemies in congress won’t work with him. Thereby cutting off most external bribery avenues and that brings the national assholes to heel.
Actually, innocent people “step aside” all the time. When they are being persecuted by Big Government the incentives for doing so can be quite appealing.
Having said that, there’s no question that Reuben Rocha Moya is guilty as sin and that his ally-Sheinbaum-is thoroughly corrupt as well.
There’s not much chance that President Trump will do something wacky like invading Mexico to capture the Sinaloa governor.
What he will do is to initiate maximum economic pressure to make it more “comfortable” for the Mexican government to turn the criminal over to the U.S. than to protect him.
No one who is not corrupt could ever be elected president of Mexico.
And when she decides to abandon corruption she probably won’t live long.
Does anybody with a functioning brain and steady heartbeat NOT believe that Mexican officials are up to their noses with drug cartel related corruption? Remember, Dims don’t count since they have no functioning brains.
… Mexican and American officials…
At this point, he and Claudia are both hoping to avoid their heads on a pike. 2 cartel puppets who did well when a compliant POTUS was at the helm, facilitating their “business arrangement”. Absent that, what’s their leverage?
I wonder where Moya will be taking his “leave of absence”?
His innocence is not in question. Ergo the multiple indictments. The “stepping aside” is code for going into hiding; or so he thinks anyway.
The rule of law based on the Constitution in its structure; the Declaration of Independence and Western Christian Tradition in its principles is what makes America the Shining City on the Hill.
All other nations resemble Mexico in its corruption. We are becoming Mexico under the leftists who hate us. PDJT is re-grounding us in that which makes us great, historically special.
We are Mexico in the Democrat States and Cities. They are run by NarcoTerrorists. The Loon in Seattle is a good example.
The Communist in LA is too. Freddie in Nashville is a wannabe. He pushed through 6 Billion for Mass Transit so you can figure Nashville will begin to disintegrate as the grift flows.
President Trump stands between us and destruction. President Trump is our Hero. Fight Fight Fight.
Additionally, there is ample evidence to suggest that a certain faction of a branch of the IC has dirty hands.
As well as acertain one time governor of a southern state which first initial is “A”…not Alabama.
I say no more.
“Becoming” Mexico? We’re pretty much already there.
NAFTA was written up and pushed by the London linked Council On Foreign Relations who besides ‘managing’ Congress for us, also provide management to the CIA run Mockingbird lying media and DEI -anti-American Corporate policies.
To quote the Little General: “That giant sucking sound you hear is American jobs leaving America”.
That was Ross Perot.
My kitchen table spread sheet is not looking too good right about now.
I know that feeling but just today after spending $133 just for a cold cut platter for my granddaughter’s birthday, there are seven of us, I came to the realization it would be so much worse with anyone but President Trump at the helm.
Like there would be zero or very limited food choices and what you could buy would be
astoundingly expensive do to inflation and scarcity.
I’m tightening my belt and trusting in God and His emissary Donald J. Trump.
Remembering when Rush Limbaugh said that President Bill Clinton made a direct appeal to him help to carry NAFTA over the finish line in Congress. Rush complied. Was a daily listener and never heard Rush say he regretted what he had helped wrought.
“What happened was predictable and was, in fact, predicted. With the abolition of tariffs, and with US guarantees that goods made in foreign countries would enter American free of charge, manufacturers began to shut plants here and more production abroad to countries where US wage-and-hour laws and health & environmental regulations did not apply, countries where there were no unions and workers’ wages were below the US minimum wage. Competitors who stayed in America were undercut and run out of business, or forced to join the stampede abroad.” Pat Buchanan
Pat Buchanan on Free Trade
https://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Pat_Buchanan_Free_Trade.htm
This picture needs to be hung in Bill Clinton’s library.
Along with Epstein’s portrait of Bill in the blue dress.
And no judges had ever tried to stop Billy Clinton from outsourcing American jobs and crippling our economic system? Gee I wonder why?
Just like “nation building”.
Translation: “propping up other nations, while ours gets hollowed out”.
And GATT was NAFTA on steroids. All pushed by the CFR. Evil people
Bush the elder negotiated most of it. Clinton was tasked with getting it through Congress in true bipartisan (Uniparty) fashion.
The governor could also be making himself the fall guy to direct all scrutiny away from his office while his (heretofore untainted?) replacement slides neatly into the vacancy.
Where have I seen this move before?
Oh yes. I believe it’s called the United States CONgress.
Interchangeable parts. The only ‘punishment’ they ever receive is ‘time to step aside now and let the next one have a go at it.’
Mexico is a Narco state run by drug cartels and a handful of oligarchs. Mexico is a beautiful country with amazing weather and geography. If it had a proper gov’t no more corrupt than the U.S., it could be an economic powerhouse if not for the ridiculously obvious corrupt gov’t.
And there is nothing suspicious whatsoever that the machismo Catholic country of Mexico with a .046% Jewish population elected a Jewish woman for President. Absolutely nothing to see there.
Tactfully put.
And the surfing there is fantastic.
Being Jewish is probably one of her least important accomplishments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Sheinbaum
The entire globalist movement from Tehran to Tijuana, Berlin, to London, Quebec to Sydney.
Are hedging their bets, dragging their feet and praying for a mid-term election in America.
That will totally restrict President Trump’s efforts. Essentially a remake of the 2016 -17, 18, 19 and 2020’s Electoral/Judicial Fraud.
This is where, their billions start to pour in. . .
They are doing more than “praying”. They are actively involved in funding and delivering the steal.
WE DID IT IN NOVEMBER 2024. WE NEED MASSIVE TURNOUT IN NOVEMBER 2026. TOO BIG TO RIG.
Here’s the 34 page indictment if anyone wants to read it.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/media/1438606/dl
Wouldn’t it be great if the Mexican gov’t indicted California Governor Newscum for collaborating with the cartel?
And the one in Arizona, too.
still healthy, not suicidal…brakes work…
And cartel Hobbs.
And the one in AZ, as well.
It seems clear that Sheinbaum is up to her neck in the cartel shenanigans. Either out of fear or for money, she is compromised. In fact, I would hazard a guess that the entirety of the Mexican government, at all levels, is corrupt.
The cartels are also heavily armed with military style weaponry…
Will be interesting to see how this all plays out.
Some of the weapons, compliments of Eric Holder and that Mooslim Barry Sotero
We already know it will be bad, very bad.
Will their Chinese partners be named ?
Whoa!
What an article.
If financial sanctions by the US occur and remittances stop, wouldn’t that be like bringing the GDP of Mexico to zilch?
Does all this tie into Cuba?
Not to zilch I think, but devastating nonetheless.
Would have to check sources in what I recall was that remittances from the US are something like a third larger in value then all of what their petroleum exports bring in.
Then there is the drugs and human trafficking.
Thank you, RF.
I figured the
narco stuff was
‘off the books’.
Right.
President Trump has lots of ways to squeeze them economically before touching all the goods covered under the soon to be defunct USMCA.
It is pretty clear that Claudia Sheinbaum is a dead woman walking. Mexico or Meheco has been an annoying parasite for over a hundred years. I would not mind President Trump cleaning house in Meheco and absorbing it into the United States Their southern border would be much easier to block and control, kill off the cartels, go scorched earth on the corrupt government, expand manufacturing, agriculture, oil production, it would be an idea worth rolling around. We will be claiming Cuba shortly, another pain in the posterior for the last seventy-five years. President Trump is making the Western Hemisphere great again, for the United States. I am not the brightest bulb on the tree, or the sharpest knife in the drawer but I believe acquiring Cuba and Mexico would be beneficial for the United States in the long run and also Greenland, in the near future. I may be drunk on power and conquest and need to sleep it off. Someone please throw a tarp over me just in case I have made a fool of myself.
Depends on how you mean “acquiring”??
No to statehood!!!!!!
Periodically arresting or killing everyone we suspect is cartel connected yes.
Protectorate that must pay its own way maybe???
Absorb Mexico into the United States??
Mercy! I hope not.
I’m quite sure that President Trump has no desire to do the “conquest” thing. He just wants to destroy the cartels and Make Mexico Safe Again (MMSA).
That’s good enough for me.
Agreed. We’ve already “absorbed” enough of Mexico here. About 40 million, NOT counting the millions of anchor babies.
Not all of that 40 million plus are Mexicans, there are large cohorts of people from South and Central America mixed in along with others from just about everywhere else in the world.
However, there are sizable numbers of Mexicans who are intent on reconquering the American Southwest by demographic conquest. La Raza types are as racist as they come.
Can you imagine the people of Mexico Voting here in America? We would be lost as a nation.
PDJT doesn’t want to own Mexico or Canada. He wants an unassailable Western Hemisphere hegemony
Hey Claudia! Keep your dirty rotten filthy cartels and your stinking drugs out of the US and you won’t have to deal with us! It is well known the politicians in Mexico are in bed sometimes literally with the cartels! It’s a very corrupt country! 💁🏻♀️
I can either sluice tons of ore (news) panning for the occasional nugget or I can visit CTH where Sundance has already smelted those nuggets into 24 karat gold!
Here are a few of those nuggets that make “Indicted Mexican Governor Ruben Rocha Moya Steps Aside During Investigation” more information-rich than anything that can be found on other news sites!
Every one of these paragraphs informed me so that I came away with a better understanding of the true nature of the headlines we read everyday from ‘journalists’ who lack the intelligence and/or the interest to do their homework:
“Many of those who understand the dynamic are saying Rocha Moya’s official decision to take a leave of absence looks more like a move to go into hiding in order to avoid any U.S. military operation that might seek to capture him.”
“Sheinbaum and AMLO have decided that a total diplomatic rupture with the U.S. is a smaller price to pay than the existential threat of Governor Rocha “spitting” in a New York courtroom.”
“Mexico City operates under the dangerous delusion that the Trump administration can still be “managed” with paperwork and delays, refusing to acknowledge that the decision to dismantle Mexico’s narco-political architecture was finalized months ago.”
“Morena appears to believe the United States can still be pacified with diplomatic phone calls, curated “mañaneras,” or the transactional arrest of a few cartel operatives. But the game has changed, and the rules have been rewritten.”
“Logistics monitoring confirms that Mexican Navy jets have been operating a high-frequency shuttle to and from Chiapas, facilitating the extraction of Governor Rocha Moya for an emergency summit with former president AMLO.”
“This use of military assets to transport an indicted official to a private ranch for a “war council” is a blunt display of state protection. It confirms that the Sheinbaum administration is not merely observing the law, but deploying the full weight of the Mexican military to ensure that Rocha remains out of reach.”
Thank you, Sundance!
Helping the cartels?
Are they going to indict Katie Hobbs?
If you are a politician or in an important position in Mexico and still breathing you are part of the drug cartels.
This cartel leader will now be on the run after coloring his hair.
Why do you think Democrat Politicians allow their cities to be drug and crime infested? Yes they also are Narco Run.
The only reason to allow crime and drugs is money. Democrats are no different than Sheinbaum.
This is kinda funny really -in its absurdity I mean.
I agree with others on the thread, Mexico is a narco terrorist state and we all know it- so what other position could they take??
They are trying to avoid having their heads wind up in a duffel bag and delivered to their family- which is a very real thing.
Breitbart has been reporting on this for years- many years now.
Sounds like the private ranch needs to become a ☄️ sized crater.