Overview
- PAN lawmakers filed a formal bid for the Senate to declare the disappearance of powers in Sinaloa and to seek the immediate detention of governor on leave Rubén Rocha Moya.
- The Permanent Commission turned confrontational as the opposition pressed for Rocha’s extradition and Morena leaders framed the case as a defense of national sovereignty.
- Movimiento Ciudadano urged that Rocha and the other named officials be prosecuted in Mexico rather than handed over to the United States.
- Sinaloa’s vice prosecutor Dámaso Castro requested leave and José Roberto Quiñonez was sworn in as acting vice prosecutor as state authorities cited the presumption of innocence.
- Mexico’s federal prosecutor said there is no basis yet to arrest any of the accused and confirmed that investigations in Mexico remain open.