🚨 Growing Suspicions About Cartel Influence in Baja
Multiple U.S. intelligence sources, speaking under condition of anonymity, have warned of increasing signs that Mexican officials near the U.S. border, and at the highest level of government are being financially influenced or intimidated by organized crime.
That concern is magnified by Mexico’s current president, Claudia Sheinbaum, who recently rejected Trump’s offer to send U.S. troops into Mexico to “wipe out the cartels”—a move seen by many in the U.S. as a refusal to confront the crisis head-on.
The governor and her husband are both high-profile members of MORENA, the same leftist party founded by former Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). President Claudia Sheinbaum is also a member of MORENA which stands for Movimiento Regeneración Nacional, which translates to National Regeneration Movement in English.
The party officially gained its registration as a political party in Mexico in 2014. However, it originated as a social and political movement led by AMLO years prior. This movement was particularly active following the 2006 and 2012 presidential elections, which López Obrador contested.
Observers have long alleged that elements of MORENA are sympathetic to or compromised by cartel factions.
In fact, when Matamoros Mayor Alberto Granados Fávila—also a MORENA official—was detained at the U.S. border on April 17, his visa was permanently revoked due to reported ties with the Gulf Cartel. The move raised eyebrows. Now, with Baja California’s governor facing a similar ban, the pattern is difficult to ignore.
