This week, the U.S. government announced charges against nearly a dozen Mexican politicians and officials who, according to an indictment filed by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, are linked to a corruption network tied to the Sinaloa cartel and the Los Chapitos faction, led by the sons of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.
The most prominent figure named in the indictment, published April 29, is Sinaloa Gov. Rubén Rocha Moya, who prosecutors allege received support from Los Chapitos to win the governorship and, once in office, allowed violence to continue unchecked while protecting cartel leaders and their drug trafficking operations.
