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Apr 30, 2026

US Indicts Sinaloa Governor and Nine Mexican Officials Over Drug Cartel Links

The US Justice Department charged Mexico's Sinaloa Governor Ruben Rocha Moya and nine other current and former officials with drug trafficking, weapons offenses, and kidnapping, alleging they worked with cartel leaders.

Apr 30, 2026·3 sources

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Top claims

▪Ruben Rocha Moya won the Sinaloa governorship in 2021
▪At least three indicted officials, including Ruben Rocha Moya and a Mexican senator, were affiliated with President Claudia Sheinbaum's Morena party
▪Ruben Rocha Moya stated that the attack against him is an attack against the Fourth Transformation political project of Mexico's governing party

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Department of Justice1 Government corruption1

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