The specter of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada loomed over this Monday’s morning press conference. Journalists directly asked President Claudia Sheinbaum whether her administration perceives a risk that the United States might extract Sinaloa’s governor on leave, Rubén Rocha Moya—much in the same way that, in July 2024, the historic leader of the Sinaloa Cartel was transferred to U.S. territory without a formal extradition process.
Sheinbaum’s response was brief and categorical: “No, we do not believe that will happen. It should not happen. Furthermore, we do not believe it *will* happen.”
This statement came during the very same press conference in which the President confirmed that Rocha Moya remains in Sinaloa and lashed out against what she characterized as a campaign of propaganda and disinformation surrounding the case.
“There is a great deal—a great deal—of propaganda; and it is indeed propaganda, not information.
There are newspapers in Mexico that are dedicated to political propaganda,” she noted, while simultaneously announcing that the government is considering bolstering its “lie detector” mechanism in light of the volume of false information circulating on social media.
