Trump drops a narco-trafficking nuclear bomb into Mexican politics
Imagine if Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), both close partners of President Donald Trump, were suddenly indicted for taking huge bribes from an international drug cartel operating out of Texas. That’s essentially what just happened with the Justice Department indictments issued against the Sinaloa drug cartel on Wednesday. Based out of […]
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Imagine if Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), both close partners of President Donald Trump, were suddenly indicted for taking huge bribes from an international drug cartel operating out of Texas. That’s essentially what just happened with the Justice Department indictments issued against the Sinaloa drug cartel on Wednesday. Based out of Mexico’s western Sinaloa state, the Sinaloa cartel is the country’s most powerful cartel after the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. Following the 2017 U.S. incarceration of Sinaloa Cartel leader, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the organization entered a period of uneasy peace. However, following the July 2024 U.S.
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