Claudia Sheinbaum, then Head of Government of Mexico City, appears smiling in a van alongside four key officials from Sinaloa: Governor Rubén Rocha Moya, Culiacán Mayor Juan de Dios Gámez, Senator Enrique Inzunza, and Finance Secretary Enrique Díaz Vega.
The original post celebrated an agreement regarding security, mobility, and innovation. Today, three of them are already in the custody of the U.S. justice system due to alleged ties to the Sinaloa Cartel, and the fourth faces the same accusations.
On May 17, the New York Post confirmed that Senator Enrique Inzunza surrendered in San Diego, joining the voluntary surrenders of Díaz Vega and former Security Secretary Gerardo Mérida Sánchez.
New York prosecutors accuse them of protecting a faction of the cartel in exchange for bribes, thereby facilitating the flow of fentanyl and other drugs into the United States.
The photo—which Sheinbaum shared at the time—has gone viral because it exposes the close ties between the current president and a political circle now implicated in drug trafficking.
She denies having any knowledge of these matters and demands proof; however, the string of voluntary surrenders speaks for itself: “every man for himself” seems to be the prevailing motto.
For ordinary citizens, the message is direct and stark. Mexico’s first female president—who promised austerity, sovereignty, and a profound transformation—now finds herself embroiled in the worst credibility crisis of her administration.
Analysts have long warned about these connections in Sinaloa, a stronghold for both the Morena party and López Obrador.
The U.S. accusations are no longer a distant rumor: they involve three surrenders in as many days, high-ranking officials either fleeing or turning themselves in, and a photograph that can no longer be erased. “Tell me who you walk with, and I’ll tell you who you are,” as the old adage goes.
It is difficult to imagine that the only person in that image who has not yet been formally charged was entirely unaware of it all. Morena, Obrador, and Sheinbaum face the risk of going down in history not as saviors, but as part of the very problem they promised to solve.
Source: mexicodailypost
