The PAN tightens the screws on Sinaloa
The blue bench in the Permanent Commission of Congress did not mince words this Wednesday. They formalized their request for the Senate to declare the disappearance of powers in Sinaloa. The reason? According to them, organized crime has already sat in the government’s chair, walks through the halls of the local Congress and even dictates sentences in the Judiciary.
Ricardo Anaya, the PAN coordinator in the Senate, dropped the bomb: they called for impeachment and immediate arrest of the licensed governor, Rubén Rocha Moya. “It is not just a security problem,” Anaya said at a press conference. “It is a total institutional crisis.”
“Organized crime would have not only infiltrated the state government and security corporations, but also the Judiciary and the local Congress,” said the senator.
The shadow of the 2021 elections
Here comes the juicy part. Anaya recalled that in the 2021 election in Sinaloa there were “alleged interventions by organized crime” to favor Morena and Rocha Moya himself. Intimidations, restrictions on opposition operators… the usual menu when thugs get their hands on the ballot boxes.
The PAN member not only asked for the disappearance of powers. He also demanded that the international cooperation machinery and extradition treaties with the United States be activated. Because, let’s be honest, when the feds over there get interested, here they tremble.
The million-dollar question: Will the Senate join this circus? Because we already know how institutional memory works when the spotlight is pointed elsewhere.
