Mexico to Prosecute Border State Governor for Working with U.S. Against Cartels

Mexico’s government is trying to prosecute a border state governor. Her crime — working with U.S. agencies to fight drug cartels.

This week, Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office held a hearing in which it questioned Chihuahua’s Governor, Maria Eugenia “Maru” Campos. Initially, they summoned her as a witness in an investigation, a common strategy to bring an individual in before charging them. The case has become a scandal in Mexico.

The incident began in April, when two U.S. agents died in a highway crash while returning from a raid by state police forces at one of the largest drug labs ever in Mexico. As Breitbart Texas reported, rather than celebrate the raid, which targeted a Sinaloa Cartel installation, Mexico’s federal government sounded the alarms, claiming that CIA agents had operated in Mexico and it was a violation of national sovereignty.

The issue came at almost the same time as the U.S.