Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum is blaming the far right in both the United States and Mexico for the tensions between the two governments in the fight against cartels and the politicians that enable them. During one of her speeches, Sheinbaum claimed that the tensions were not Trump’s fault but the fault of far-right groups in both countries that opposed her political party for ideological reasons. Sheinbaum did not directly address the drug trafficking allegations and criminal indictments against top politicians within her party that triggered those tensions.
In her speech, Sheinbaum claimed that she has a good relationship with U.S. President Donald J. Trump and that she didn’t think that the tensions were caused by him. She claimed that people on the far right in Mexico had teamed up with people on the far right in the U.S. and were behind the instability in an attempt to benefit from it. Sheinbaum made no mention of the criminal indictment against Sinaloa’s governor Ruben Rocha Moya, who, along with nine of his closest allies, is accused of working for the Sinaloa Cartel by the U.S. Department of Justice. The tensions began when Sheinbaum used her position to defend Rocha Moya, claiming there was no evidence of wrongdoing on his part. She has since made numerous public statements claiming that the criminal case against Rocha Moya is political, aimed at hurting her party, MORENA. Rocha Moya is a member of that party and a close friend of Sheinbaum’s mentor and MORENA founder Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
