The power of Mexico’s drug cartels is a national security threat that undermines the stability of our region and poisons thousands of Americans every year. President Donald Trump’s indictment of two Mexican government officials is a direct assault on the “intolerable alliance” between Mexico’s ruling party and the Sinaloa drug cartel. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum would be wise to cooperate.
On April 29, the Department of Justice issued indictments against the cartel in Mexico, including two members of Sheinbaum’s Morena Party: Sinaloa governor Ruben Rocha Moya and Mexican Sen. Enrique Inzunza Cazarez. Sinaloa’s deputy chief prosecutor, Damaso Castro Zaavedra, and the former chiefs of all of Sinaloa’s main law enforcement agencies have also been charged.
The level of corruption is staggering. So too are some of the charges.
One of the indicted former chiefs, Juan Valenzuela Millan, allegedly ordered the kidnapping of a Drug Enforcement Agency source and his 13-year-old son. Under
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