Mexican President Protecting Cartels

Mexican Senator Accuses President Sheinbaum of Shielding Narco-Politicians Following US Cartel Indictment

Every week, another American family buries a child taken by fentanyl. Every week, another community watches the poison spread through its neighborhoods, its schools, its playgrounds.

Tens of thousands of Americans die each year from this scourge. The cartels responsible operate with stunning impunity — and for years, Americans have rightly demanded to know who is letting them get away with it.

The answer doesn’t live only in cartel mountain compounds. The real enablers wear suits, hold titles, and sit behind mahogany desks in government buildings. Someone, somewhere in a position of enormous power, has been running interference for the very organizations destroying American communities.

And the curtain just got ripped wide open.

Mexican Sen. Lilly Téllez accused President Claudia Sheinbaum’s government of protecting what she called “narco-politicians” after New York prosecutors unsealed indictments accusing 10 current and former Mexican officials of working with the Sinaloa cartel to protect fentanyl trafficking operations.

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