Overview
- The SDNY case accuses 10 current and former Sinaloa officials of ties to the Sinaloa Cartel and seeks their provisional arrest for extradition, and Governor Rubén Rocha Moya and Culiacán Mayor Juan de Dios Gámez took temporary leave.
- The Sinaloa prosecutor’s office appointed José Roberto Quiñonez Coronado as acting vice prosecutor on Wednesday after Vice Prosecutor Dámaso Castro requested unpaid leave.
- Following Wednesday’s stormy session of the Permanent Commission, PAN legislators demanded Rocha Moya’s extradition and even the disappearance of powers in Sinaloa, while Morena rejected those demands as a test of national sovereignty.
- President Claudia Sheinbaum said Senator Enrique Inzunza alone must decide whether to take leave, and he skipped the session after earlier signaling he would attend.
- Federal prosecutors say they lack evidence to detain the accused and have asked the U.S. for case files, and the accusations are already reshaping Sinaloa’s 2027 race by clouding the prospects of Morena hopefuls Enrique Inzunza and Juan de Dios Gámez.