Sheinbaum does not mess around: let those who received speak
In a twist that no one saw coming, or yes, but we still pretend to be surprised, President Claudia Sheinbaum has just thrown the ball into the court of justice with an elegance worthy of an Olympic mental gymnast. It turns out that Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the head of the cartel who has been in the business longer than us using the Internet, confessed in a gringo court that for 45 years (yes, almost half a century, which leads us to wonder what we have done with our lives) he operated with total impunity thanks to an infallible business strategy: bribing every god. Politicians, military… basically, the guest list for his party of corruption had to be longer than that of a royal wedding.
Faced with this bombshell, which is the narco equivalent of releasing the trailer for the final season of a series, the president did not limit herself to putting on a poker face. No, gentlemen. Sheinbaum, with the calm of someone ordering an extra guacamole avocado toast, urged that someone please file a formal complaint. Because there is no point in the boss spilling the soup if there is no one to pick up the pieces of the broken dishes. “Well, there has to be a complaint, right? I mean, because you can talk about this issue, but who did you give money to?” he questioned. In other words, the million-dollar question: names, surnames and RFC, please.
The DEA ranking that is more uncomfortable than accidentally liking a photo of your ex
But the drama of the day does not end there. In his now famous morning, which for many is our replacement for the morning soap opera, Sheinbaum brought out another juicy detail. It turns out that the director of the DEA, Terry Cole, in a moment of sincerity that surely did not go through the public relations department, placed three characters on the same podium of infamy: the well-known bosses Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, and the former president Felipe Calderón’s security secretary, Genaro García Luna. Yes, you read that right. The head of the US anti-drug agency put the former Mexican official on the same level as the two most wanted drug traffickers on the planet.
“The Director of the DEA puts two well-known drug lords and the former Secretary of Security under Calderón on the same level,” Sheinbaum stressed, with that “I told you so” tone that we all use when we are finally right in a Twitter discussion. And he finished with the perfect rhetorical question: “It’s interesting, isn’t it? Don’t you think that’s interesting?” We find it as interesting as watching a train derail in slow motion, honestly. It’s the kind of statement that leaves you thinking and needing a strong coffee to process it.
This moment is the geopolitical equivalent of when your streaming app recommends you group a Hollywood actor, a reggaeton singer, and an influencer into the “artists you might like” category. The DEA’s move, far from being a simple comment, is a political time bomb that confirms the darkest suspicions we have had for years. Sheinbaum, instead of hiding it, puts it on the table like the elephant in the room that it has always been, inviting everyone to analyze the surrealism of the situation.
Meanwhile, the rest of us stare at the screen, wondering if this is just another chapter in the drug war or the script for the next season of Narcos. Collaboration between governments is still in place, according to the American prosecutor’s office, but with revelations like these, one cannot help but think that reality always surpasses fiction, and with a much higher budget.
The moral? That when a boss confesses and a federal agency makes uncomfortable comparisons, the call to action is clear: justice must take its course and someone has to start pointing the right finger. And we, as viewers of this political-narco thriller, are left with our eyes wide open, waiting for the next episode.
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