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.”
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.
They can kidnap and imprison them.
Well, they never really needed an excuse to do that; Guantanamo already exists.
It’s a way of threatening Sheinbaum with futher interference.
Sounds like the US is planning to stage another kidnapping or an outright invasion of Mexico.
Someone just lost a bet on Polymarket
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.
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.
True but what I mean is the relationship won’t just go from tense and complicated (for lack of a better term) to the US says jump and Mexico asks how high
The threats are all on the US side, and they’re all from Trump.
