The permanence in office as governor of Sinaloa puts more pressure on the institutional relationship between Claudia Sheinbaum and Donald Trump, by virtue of the fact that the classification of the great Mexican drug lords as terrorists, which the real estate magnate intends to carry out, includes, of course, high-level politicians on this side of the border who are involved with the criminals.
The collusion between the Sinaloa governor and the bad guys has been permanently denounced by drug traffickers opposed to Los Chapitos, such as Mayo Zambada, among others, who is preparing to become a protected witness in exchange for opening Pandora’s box from which not only names like Rubén Rocha Moya will emerge, but also from the federal sphere.
The former governor of that entity and former presidential candidate, Francisco Labastida, has insisted that Rocha Moya came to the governorship with the support of the drug traffickers and this is known here and, of course, by the US intelligence agencies.
“In Sinaloa we have a narco-government, which is why the support of the federal government and state leaders of Morena to Rubén Rocha is absurd and irresponsible,” warned Labastida Ochoa.
The attempt to extend a protective cloak to the state leader by the federal government is a serious error with incalculable consequences because, starting January 20, the date of Donald Trump’s inauguration as president of the United States, it entails various immediate actions, including the declaration of criminals for trafficking fentanyl and other synthetic drugs to that country as terrorists, and this necessarily involves his protectors embedded in the municipal, state and federal governments.
The worn-out discourse of the defense of Mexico’s sovereignty speaks more of the real concern that exists about the involvement of national politicians with criminals than, in reality, of Trump’s alleged intention to invade our country.
The intervention speaks of using all the intelligence, technology and, of course, money laundering instruments that the US government and its agencies have to combat Mexican drug lords, and not so much because of the incursion of the Armed Forces of that country into national territory.
We have said until we are tired that the negotiation cards that Claudia Sheinbaum’s government has are few to even reach fair and balanced agreements with its North American counterpart, precisely because Andrés Manuel López Obrador was negligent, to put it elegantly, in the fight against public insecurity and in particular with some criminal groups based precisely in Sinaloa.
The Mexican government has not been able or has not wanted to stop drug traffickers and therefore, the alert that prevails in the high spheres of the Washington government will become concrete actions against criminals from the moment Trump takes office in the Oval Office of the White House.
If the Mexican president intends to continue protecting Rubén Rocha Moya during his stay as governor of Sinaloa, she will have to suffer the political consequences of the criminal persecution that the United States will undertake against this president.
It is better to speed up Rocha’s resignation in order to get that hot potato out of her hands and arrive less compromised at the negotiating tables with the Americans.
Dr. Sheinbaum is faced with a golden opportunity: to get rid of those uncomfortable ties that represent protecting Morena militants involved in open collusion with criminals, instead of assuming commitments inherited by her predecessor.
It is inconceivable, although it speaks of the chaos that prevails in Sinaloa, with governability on the verge of breaking down, to transfer Omar García Harfuch, head of the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection, to work in that entity, when more than half of the national territory demands his presence, since there are entities such as Guerrero, Chiapas, Guanajuato, State of Mexico, Michoacán, Tabasco, Zacatecas, Jalisco and Veracruz, among others, that require the immediate attention of this official.
You can go live in Culiacán, but that does not guarantee the pacification of the region, if there is no political will to finish off all, yes, all, the drug lords and their protectors embedded in high government spheres.
García Harfuch is more useful in Mexico City, in his central offices, coordinating all the national operations against criminals, than centralizing himself in an entity like Sinaloa, which is governed by an official who betrayed his countrymen and the trust of President Claudia Sheinbaum.
Source: elfinanciero
