Former Mazatlán mayor Luis Guillermo Benítez Torres announced he will send a letter to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum detailing the alleged corruption and nepotism scheme operated by Governor Rubén Rocha Moya and Senator Enrique Inzunza.
In an interview with Reforma, the politician known as “El Químico” (The Chemist) maintains that Morena’s progress in the state is at risk due to the infiltration of individuals linked to illicit activities.
According to the former mayor, the only solution to halt the governance crisis is to dismantle the network of officials who have been placed in key positions by the ruling group.
“Practically everyone in the Sinaloa government is a protégé of Rocha Moya and Inzunza. It’s a family clan that has governed Sinaloa and plundered it. I believe it’s time for the President of the Republic and the party president to intervene. I’m sure they would be very interested in knowing things they don’t. We can’t put Sinaloa at risk with the party in the hands of Rocha Moya and his cronies,” he stated, according to the media outlet.
He denounces political persecution and control of the Sinaloa Prosecutor’s Office.
Benítez Torres recalled that he was the first mayor ousted by the Rocha Moya administration through the use of law enforcement institutions.
He pointed out that the same scheme was repeated with the former mayors of Culiacán and Ahome, using local prosecutors’ offices as tools of political extortion to “take them out of the game” and allow the governor’s interests to advance.
“Who was the Sinaloa Attorney General’s Office protecting in all these cases? Rubén Rocha and Senator Enrique Inzunza. We finally proved that it was all a lie, that their extortion arm—the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, the Attorney General’s Office, and their prosecutors—eliminated the mayors of the most important municipalities,” the media outlet quoted him as saying.
The former mayor accused the current leadership of Morena in the state of extending this control to the local party structure, stating that they do not represent the values of the national movement, but rather those of a specific faction with alleged ties to organized crime.
“There is still an Attorney General’s Office here in Sinaloa controlled by a narco-party, Morena Sinaloa. I’m saying this from here, not from other parts of the country. (…) Rocha’s biggest supporter was Senator Enrique Inzunza, and he’s also on his knees, disappeared,” he argued.
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The businessman’s criticism extended to the current state cabinet, noting that the state is experiencing institutional chaos due to a lack of active officials and a judiciary riddled with relatives of Enrique Inzunza.
The uncertainty, he explained, stems from the fact that there is currently no Secretary of Government and that the interim governor, Yeraldine Bonilla, will have her actions limited by an advanced pregnancy.
“So, imagine the political uncertainty when there is no Secretary of Government, when there is an interim governor who is about to give birth. What we are experiencing in Sinaloa is chaotic,” he stated.
Finally, Benítez Torres warned about the profiles that Rocha Moya’s group is trying to position for 2027.
He mentioned that among the candidates are allegedly the mayor of Culiacán, Juan de Dios Gámez, who is currently on leave, the mayor of Mazatlán, Estrella Palacios Domínguez, and Senator Imelda Castro.
“There are voices saying they’ll return in a month. They shouldn’t be coming back, and besides, they should replace those in all the government departments, all the people they installed to govern everywhere. (…) We don’t trust the networks the former governor has built, and our Morena candidates could be weakened by this betrayal,” he stated.
Source: politico
