Oh boy, this indictment puts Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum in a really precarious position. If President Sheinbaum gives up the Governor of Sinaloa, Mexico, Ruben Rocha Moya to extradition the Sinaloa cartel will go ultra-violent against Sheinbaum and Moya will likely take down the entire government apparatus with him.
[Read Indictment Here]
[Ancillary to this, it now makes sense why all the various Mexican federal officials were publicly criticizing the Trump administration and CIA in recent days. They knew this in advance.]
The DOJ (SDNY) has 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.
“The defendants have played a variety of essential roles for the Cartel: among other things, the defendants have allegedly shielded Cartel leaders from investigation, arrest, and prosecution; caused sensitive law enforcement and military information to be provided to members of the Cartel and allied drug traffickers to assist the Cartel’s criminal activities; directed members of state and local law enforcement agencies, such as the Sinaloa State Police, the Investigative Police for the Sinaloa State Attorney General’s Office, and the Culiacan Municipal Police, to protect drug loads stored in and transiting through Mexico to the United States; and allowed brutal drug-related violence to be committed by members of the Cartel without consequence. In exchange, the defendants have collectively received millions of dollars in drug money from the Cartel.” (link)
[(Seated, Right) Rubén Rocha Moya, 76 years old — Acting Governor of Sinaloa. Conspiracy to import narcotics, possession of machine guns and destructive devices. Maximum penalty: life imprisonment. Mandatory minimum: 40 years. Party: Morena. (Seated, Left) Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.]
VIA LBR on Twitter: – […] This move represents a direct and aggressive escalation by Washington against the highest levels of the Mexican state apparatus. The indictments detail a systemic entanglement between regional Morena governance and cartel operations, effectively labeling the Sinaloa state leadership a criminal enterprise under U.S. law.
This legal assault by the DOJ decapitates the political leadership of one of Mexico’s most strategically sensitive states at a moment of extreme national fragility. By targeting a sitting governor, the U.S. is signaling a total collapse of bilateral trust and an end to the era of diplomatic shielding for Mexican officials. The move is designed to force a confrontation within the Sheinbaum administration, leaving Mexico City with zero room to maneuver between its domestic political alliances and the threat of total diplomatic isolation. The fallout will be immediate and chaotic.
Beyond the legal proceedings, these indictments serve as a precursor to broader sanctions and a likely reclassification of Mexican security cooperation. For the Mexican government, the era of managed stability in Sinaloa is over; Sheinbaum is now facing a direct challenge to state legitimacy and a physical security vacuum that will likely trigger a violent internal restructuring of cartel hierarchies and government control.” (SOURCE)
“I would urge you to see the truth of the situation you are in Claudia. That is my advice. It is not for me to tell you what you should have done or not done. The world in which you seek to undo the mistakes you made is different from the world where the mistakes were made. You are now at the crossing, and you want to choose – but there is no choosing here. There is only accepting. The choosing was done a long time ago. … I don’t mean to offend you, but reflective women often find themselves removed from the realities of life. In any case, we should all prepare a place where we can accommodate all of the tragedies that sooner or later will come to our lives. But this is an economy few people care to practice, and that is because when it comes to losing leadership the normal rules of exchanges do not apply, because losing office transcends value. Nicolas Maduro would give his entire nation to exit his reality, and yet he cannot buy anything without office, because without office he is worthless.” [Context]
Moya = DMW
So much wrong with Mexico, there really is no legitimate government, the cartel run it all so either nuke them all or deal with the cartel as the government.
What rattles my cage is these people, American and others want to buy land there to retire. Send huge sums of money over to Mexico but want to earn it here. So much wrong.
I really don’t know why we don’t take it by force.
We would not want Mexico on a good day! Spend time there, look at the pervasive poverty, and corruption. You think Puerto Rico would be a drain on our economy, Mexico would be a sink hole with not return on investment.
Ignorant statement. Cañcun and Riviera Maya are 85% occupied. Beautiful weather and nicer people then most in America. Facts.
😂😂
Your perception defines your world, I met way more humble and generous people in central Mexico on my journey from Mexico City to Tampico then all my years in the “tourist” areas along the coast. It will all be fun and games till it’s not and then you will have no one who will help you get out of trouble, not the State Department, your Congressman or the local LEO’s. The only thing that works is the Benjamins and when those are gone you better be able to walk out like I did. 🖖🏻
“thAn all my years” lol
I am a grunt not an English major 😜
I get the misspellings, since I make many of them myself.
But you may want to check out #7 in the Guidelines for Comments above. Here’s the first sentence —
7.) SPELLING AND PUNCTUATION – This is not school and we do not demerit for poor spelling, nor do we allow anyone to call others out for the same.
You don’t know My perspective. I’m married to a beautiful Yucateca….with a very large Catholic family. Mother in law is 94 and loves me.
Gracias Dios!!
Does she and her family have large heads? Muchas Yucatecas son cabezones!
Well yeah the upper middle class have it made. As in 10, 11 year old maids to do all the housework. Do they have washing machines? It do the 10 year old maids still do the laundry by hand? Because 10 years of laundry maid pathetic wages are cheaper than buying a washing machine. Are the kids always driven to school because it’s too dangerous to walk to school sports visit friends?
You really don’t have a clue! Sad. My wife told me not to reply to your statement. So just will not. She knows ignorant when she reads it…
Americans drive all their kids to school because living in USA is very dangerous .
Agreed!
True but the “nice” areas and people are subject to the whims of the cartels. That can change VERY fast.
Yes. Unless those “nice” areas have a military force that can repel the cartels then they exist in their current form at the whims and permission of the cartels. I am certain that they pay the cartels big money for the ability to run their “nice” areas.
The security in Yucatán is the best in México and possible El mundo. Please take a look see…
https://elcri.men/en/
Glad you think so. Enjoy your visit there. Overall, the place is a criminal enterprise.
Just like California! And NY. Don’t kiss yourself.
Oh! Vaccines were not mandatory in México.
Uhhh … NO. Not just like California and NY. Mexican cartels are a whole different level of violence, corruption, and evil. That being said, stay safe my friend.
California also known as Northern Mexico.
Incomplete statement and non-factual statement.
85% occupied by or with what?”Beautiful” and “nicer” are descriptive and comparative adjectives based on personal judgement….not facts.Those who live in glass houses should not be so eager to throw stones.
1967 was my 1st introduction to Baja California. Visiting all but 2 of the 32 states since. Not one issue.
I Know!! More than most.
That is one tiny location. The rest of the country the rest of the country is exactly as Slum says. Guess your travel experence is limited. You couldn’t pay me to buy in your favored spots there
And one of the tiny locations he mentioned, Cancun, is only safe when you’re locked behind tall, gated walls.
Our hotel told us NOT to go on the beach outside the gate after dark. . . ’cause the people are “nicer” during those hours I guess.
It’s usually not an effective strategy to try to prove a point with the exception instead of the rule.
The cartels make sure the tourist areas are safe because they want the cash.
Well, you are certainly entitled to your opinion, but that does not make it a fact by any stretch of the imagination.
Have you actually seen the disgusting slums shacks and lack of plumbing in the neighborhood where the starvation level employees of the Cancun resorts and vacation homes live?
That’s what ruined Acapulco and Encinitas. Not everyone who grows up in the slave quarters wants to be a slave in a resort. So they turn to crime. Ever wondered why the fences and guards around the resort areas?
Governance is everything when addressing poverty of a nation. Mexico could be great if it were governed properly. IMO
Mexico’s worse than it was 100 years ago.
Lots of poverty, but also lots of natural resources. It would be a very tough task to get rid of the criminal element and corruption, but if that could be done the country would be awesome!
I’ve asked many otherwise intelligent people why they would spend large sums of 💰 “vacationing” in a narco state that floods our nation with deadly drugs & millions of illiterate and destitute people.
After some confusion then consideration… they stop going there.
Love Cañcun. You aren’t missed! One iota!!
But!! USA has the Drug Culture! Drug addicts!! Snorting populace!
The supply feeds the demand. Cut off the damn supply!
Well, cutting off the supply is our current approach. But it’s doomed to never being largely successful as long as the demand exists. And the demand for drugs in the U.S. is phenomenal. Illegal drug users in this country support the cartels with billions of dollars. And as long as that demand exists and the money is available, people are going to kill to supply it.
The drug addicts of today are the grandchildren great grandchildren and many great greats going back thousands of years of the alcoholics who started drinking at lunch, staggered back to work and hit the bars before they went home. Most profitable bars were located in the factory and office districts. Between the workplaces and the bus or subway stop.
Alcohol sales and bar profits are going down because the younger generation is into weed and or uppers. Wineries are a great tax deduction because they are farms. But even with the tax deductions they’re ripping out the grape vines and planting other crops
WTF…..American people did throw God out in 1962!! Your words amaze anyone with common sense.
Burro
👎Unwarranted nastiness. Don’t be a Dodo, Bobo.
one of my brother’s old teachers lives in yucatan,,,,he’s not moving
Is he a prisoner?
We have enough out of control criminals and retards here in America. And more criminal foreigners arriving every day.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2g3vmde0eo
Mexico is a stinking craphole. I can’t imagine why people choose to vacation there and spend their money there. They already steal enough of our resources and pollute our nation with drugs and violence.
Not to mention sewage. South San Diego beaches are basically shit-water.
Ditto. Been to Mexico once. I have no desire to go back. Likely half the people in positions of power are corrupt. They have made an accommodation with the choice of “plato o pluto.” The ones that picked plato or silver may still be breathing.
No no, Sundance take note. Chinese e-car dealerships have moved to the Mexican border and are selling muchos carros, to Americans in Laredo, and El Paso, and Reynosa, McAllen, TX for 20k then they drive them back into the States. The Chinese think that MAGA will lose the midterms.
NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. Do not believe the hype folks. In part, thank you SCOTUS.
No one understands or explains political violence and its consequences better than Sundance!!! JMO Godspeed Sundance!
This cannot be handled diplomatically, or through any legal process. And for God’s sake, do NOT send the CIA although they are probably already salivating. Special Forces Teams with one mission. Kill the bad guys!
This is their creation.
See: Sicario-2015 movie with Emily Blunt and Josh Brolin
I did, and have been wanting to watch it again. Just may be the night.
On cue, the CIA was blissfully unaware.
And…….
I would be willing to bet solid money that the Mexican President’s security detail includes personnel tied directly to the drug cartels.
She knows it too.
The Mexican Government openly appointed a Cartel Lawyer to the Mexican Supreme Court just a 3-4 years ago.
Also, it was likely an “insider” on the Mexican President’s close staff that gave up the names of the CIA Operatives killed, recently in Mexico.
My thinking is that what may have triggered this next step.
There is no one in Mexico who goes into their political world without being clear eyed about this. They all know, from top to bottom, what they are doing.
And if they do go into politics believing they have altruistic reasons and will fight corruption. . . they will shortly thereafter be found in the morgue.
if i was her i’d be getting me and my family north.
Like that president of India a woman named Ghandi. She was killed by a body guard who was a member of a Sikh rebel group.
Hopefully they add or have included human trafficking charges … as not a single immigrant moved through Mexico without the permission of the Drug Cartels.
The links to human trafficking to the cartels needs to be added to the DoJ’s immigration enforcement defense before the lawfare courts they have to battle.
Then there are the yet to be declassified documents the US INTEL Community has that links allot of places, NGO’s, USAID & people from inside the US Government to the Cartels … over the past 20 years.
Inside state govts as well, such as AZ and CA in particular.
God Bless President TRUMP for taking on this Evil.
This Mexican bull crap is has been the elephant in the room that nobody would address Head On…. …
Ouch! Yes.
Now do Katie Hobbs. An even bigger cartel boss.
Oh boy but Hobbs is quite the DNC operative / piece of work. Got into a furious argument at National Review Online defending Kari Lake, who the globalist RINOs there said was a poor candidate. Don’t know if the RINOs there are deluded, stupid, corrupt, or all three because both Karl Rove and Jeb Bush have spoken at recent NR events. Wonder what WFB would say or think? Never met him but don’t think he’d be happy with what’s become of his “conservative” magazine.
Don’t hear much at all these days from/about Kari Lake.
We are hoping, without President Trump AZ would be commie territory.
Do not let cartels audit your elections.
Soros and cartels love her, Gago and traitor Kelly.
there are millions of mexicans living in our nation today, legally and illegally, that benefit in some financial way from drug trafficking, human smuggling, sex trafficking, forced labor, and other illegal activities. There are blue american cities that are politically run by the cartels via their money (possibly a few states).
If you took away the illegal money and then all the money mexicans in america send to their families in mexico, they would have an almost immediate national crisis. Just like canada, mexico has been feeding on america’s teets for generations.
Mexicans send about 30 billion a year to Mexico. While living in American welfare for basic expenses like food housing and utilities. And adults working full time.
THEY DIDN’T JUST INDICT A CARTEL BOSS.
THEY INDICTED A SITTING GOVERNOR.
Rubén Rocha Moya was untouchable. He ran the Mexican state of Sinaloa. He controlled the police. He controlled the ports. He met with El Chapo’s sons to guarantee their protection.
Why?
Because he wasn’t just running a state. He was running the fentanyl pipeline that is killing 70,000 Americans a year.
Yesterday morning, Trump’s DOJ unsealed the indictment in New York. The same court that buried El Chapo.
The Governor of Sinaloa. Indicted.
His Deputy Attorney General — taking $11,000 a month in cartel bribes. Indicted.
His Police Commander — who kidnapped and murdered a DEA source. Indicted.
His entire corrupt cabinet — exposed.
Right now, the politicians who took cartel money are scrambling. They are destroying phones. They are trying to flee. They are panicking.
Good.
That is the sound of the Deep State’s funding network collapsing.
Trump designated the cartels as terrorist organizations.
Trump cut off their money laundering operations.
Now Trump is taking out their political protection, one by one.
This is not politics. This is war. And the snakes are losing their heads.
I tire of chatGPT-generated nonsense from blue checkmark twitter accounts that exist solely to farm ad revenue from Elon.
and who in our not so illustrious group of politicians
make money off these cartels?
Anyone in California politics, either directly or indirectly, is getting Mexican cartel money.
far out. i guess the usmca is on the back burner for mexico now.
It’s a piece of the leverage. It’ll be played as part of the overall plan.
i was speaking of mexico. i know our strategy.
Far out x 1000!
This is an opportunity for her to totally shift what is happening in Mexico, if she puts the USMCA front and center.
May she take this opportunity, bringing freedom and safety to her people.
She’s between the rock and the hard place; if she allows extradition, she’s as good as dead. If she doesn’t, Trump will crush Mexico and
Economically and her along with it.
Mexican President Claudio Sheinbaum should call George Soros, Klaus Schwab, and the WEF, who, in a partnering relationship with the President, can helped Mexico by rethinking its illicit industry strategy and implementation processes. Using the Illicit Industry Integration Model (I3M), WEF can help Mexico use its skills, methodologies, knowledge, capital and experiences to align the Mexico’s people, processes and technology in support of its overall strategy within a Program Management framework. WEF should convene a diverse cross-spectrum of illicit industry analysts and leading globalists along with WEF consultants with deep skills in the cross-border transportation industry to engage in a two-day itinerary of meetings to leverage their personal knowledge capital, both tacit and explicit, and to enable them to synergize with each other in order to achieve the implicit goals of delivering and successfully architecting and implementing an enterprise-wide value framework across the continuum of illicit industry cross-median processes. The meeting should be held in a park-like setting–preferably in Switzerland with supporting food, beverage, and comfort workers–enabling and creating an impact environment which was strategically based, illicit industry-focused, and built upon a consistent, clear, and unified market message and aligned with Mexico’s mission, vision, and core values. This will doubtless prove conducive towards the creation of a total illicit-industry integration solution, and the WEB looks forward to helping President Sheinbaum and Mexico change to become more successful.
hahahaha.
You’re joking right a compendium of business school and economics bubble babble
Love that President Trump is playing these realpolitik cards — love it! From a domestic perspective, Trump implicitly calls out Democrats and RINOs who have been collaborating with these cartels against Americans for leftist ideology and money.
Name names, dang it!
…’left’ out…
is the lack of wisdom of many in the u.s. population that has a demand for the supply of illegal drugs and are willing to pay
to secretly buy an unhealthy (drug) product – which feeds the illegal cartels.
In a u.s. miss culture (often beginning on U.S. college campuses and protected by HIPPA)
for decades , there is also a need to honestly Make American Healthy Again.
At the core of the brain dysfunction (amongst some, not all), is teenagers (and sugar parents complacency)
desire for irresponsible rebellion that harms their bodies and brains (and with miss groupthink, they miss think that is cool ).
That is fixable with exposing the truth via honest education – over many years.
( and yes, that is not easy in an environment that also miss thinks for 50 years that killing innocent fetuses in the womb is not worth a second thought…because of sad, individual selfishness (not a virtue, not caring of others) -and a p p ‘hood’ that has a desire for money…. not love…)
p.s.
With the indictment, and in parallel,
it is good that the supply side (of drugs) is getting way, way past due attention in may hey coe.
That in part, can reduce the evil temptations (or raise the cost)
to miss follow the miss groupthink, (un)cool harm to millions of bodies and minds (young and old).
imho
Love thy neighbors….
Lets deal with our own Cartel please.
So how is the deep state (SEE I AAAAAA) going to make money to fund the undermining of our Republic now?
NO MERCY!
Being a conservative means the monetizing Americans by globalists must stop.
This post shows multiple political connections that even a long-time CTH reader would have missed were it not pointed out explicitly–thanks Sundance!
Let’s see what happens – fear is from the pit
Morena serves no purpose anymore. It’d be a lot cheaper for the cartel to take him out along with the others rather than risk exposing the rest of the network (including politicos in the US). Michael knows Machiavelli.
While we know that POTUS can wear multiple hats simultaneously, this signals to me that the Iran situation is 90% finished?
Exactly what I’m hoping. Let’s turn our attention back to North, Central, and South America. Clean up, protect, and defend the Amrica’s from the rest of the world! Of course, making sure Iran can not have a nuclear weapon for the foreseeable future was a very necessary first step in our protection.
I saw something this AM May 2 Trump is talking about ending whatever he’s doing in Iran.
Re traveling to Mexico:
https://travel.state.gov/en/international-travel/travel-advisories/mexico.html
Now do Treasonous Tampon Timmy Walz.
And Katie Hobbs in AZ
And Jared Polis in CO and Gavin Newscum in CA.
Rev up the helicopters and Special Ops gang. Another Maduro style extraction would be great.
Blackrock’s CEO Fink is a friend of Claudias.
Sundance one of your best analogies.
The only reason the cartels exist and drugs run rampant is American citizens that consume the drugs. We (not me) are the enablers! But it will be impossible to stop Americans providing the demand. The supply will come from somewhere else if we cut off Mexico.
Yours is a simple statement to a complicated problem. I’m happy that you never had debilitating chronic pain issue.
My neighbor asked one day why I was pulling out weeds. He said they’ll just grow back again. I said these will not.
Oh my! This is going to be extrodinary.
That last paragraph from the movie The Counselor. I was not aware of that movie.
That is some heavy philosphy.
What is incredible to me is:
Just a few days ago, Glenn Beck posted a clip of him talking to Dennis Prager (he who is now a quadriplegic after a fall)
asking him about the tragedy, of Charlie Kirk, and him….and Dennis said “We all need to prepare for the tragedies that will inevitably happen in our lives.” We need to prepare spiritually for these things, so we can deal with them when they do happen.
And now, here it is again in this dialogue.
My favorite movie dialogue from Excalibur:
For several years DH and I visited Acapulco, stayed in a villa at the Acapulco Princess ‘owned’ by a (American) contractor he did work for. A nice vacation then but I would not go now. We saw the armed guards on the beach by the hotel, in front of businesses in downtown and on our way to and from the town of Taxco when they stopped our bus and we had to get out and be searched. I have seen that Acapulco has become very dangerous as I’m sure most locations are where there would be tourists. May I say that we never were bothered by Montezuma’s revenge in all those trips. The worst thing was the dead roach that got in my mouth from the first sip of my margarita at Carlos n Charley’s on one trip.
Good. Now do Cuba.
Not to mention the purveyors of Fast and Furious.
Weapons charges?!? Say what!!
Sounds to me like Claudia should vacate the country ASAP. Any move against Sinaloa could cost her life.
Why is the corrupted SDNY issuing the Indictment ?
All “Politicians” in Mexico are part of The failed Narco State and cartel in Mexico.
How about a full ban on everything Mexican including travel ?
It might hurt for a while and tariffs slapped on all “American companies in Mexico.
Wonder how many Mexican current and former officials will treat out their US counterparts?
“The move is designed to force a confrontation within the Sheinbaum administration, leaving Mexico City with zero room to maneuver between its domestic political alliances and the threat of total diplomatic isolation. The fallout will be immediate and chaotic.”
Sounds like our neighbor to the south may, like in days gone by, once again be a beautiful and safe place American families would want to visit.
I remember visiting Mexico as a child with my parents and siblings. It was already falling apart in the 1960s, but when friends of ours who lived there were threatened with having their child kidnapped in 2014, we (and they) knew it was no longer a safe place for Americans of any age.
Expendable, dispensable, all, everyone, every day.
Mexico decades ago there was a very destructive hurricane hit Guatemala Mexico and California. California just unusually heavy rain even up rooted trees.
A few months later in a big airport a Catholic bishop wearing his official black priest suit and a big highly visible silver crucifix was gunned down murdered in the arrivals section. The killers blended into the crowd and disappeared. American and Mexican news called a random killing the motive is unknown . The bishop was just a random passenger killed in a busy airport by random killers. Motive is unknown.
The American government and American NGOS send millions of dollars of supplies to Mexico and Guatemala Most of it was stolen. Including hundreds of thousands of 5 gallon water containers. Essential part of disaster relief because when the water supply gets contaminated sickness ensured. Entire shiploads of that water were confiscated by the armies and sold for exorbitant prices. Among other looting.
That bishop was exposing the corruption and robbery of hurricane relief supplies. Disturbing the looting.
Just randomly killed in a busy airport. Right.
Trump is helping the Mexican people take on the cartels which the Anglo American empire/deep state put into power – as they’ve done across Latin America and the world