Mexico's PRI leader slams 'narco-politician' probe reports, demands accountability

Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas, the national leader of Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), has strongly criticized recent journalistic reports alleging that the U.S. government is investigating Sonora Governor Alfonso Durazo and Tamaulipas Governor Américo Villarreal for suspected ties to organized crime. Moreno described these reports, which suggest both governors may have had their U.S. visas revoked due to criminal inquiries, as a "direct blow to the country's credibility."

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is a direct blow to the country's credibility

In a social media message, Moreno urged Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to "side with the Mexican people" and cease protecting figures he labeled as part of the "Macuspana Cartel," including former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his sons. He demanded an end to impunity for those he accused of negotiating with cartels for operational, trafficking, and violent activities without consequence. Moreno reproached the ruling Morena government for allegedly shielding these politicians instead of holding them accountable, calling them "cynical, corrupt, and narco-politicians" who feel untouchable due to a "mantle of impunity."

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that she side with the Mexican people, that she stop protecting the Macuspana Cartel, the 'Boss of Bosses' Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his corrupt sons Andy, Bobby and José Ramón, and that she stop giving impunity once and for all to those who negotiated with the organized crime cartels in exchange for operating, trafficking, killing and kidnapping without consequences.

Moreno lamented that while these individuals allegedly protect each other, families in Sonora and Tamaulipas live under the constant threat of organized crime. He predicted that "corrupt rats" would eventually abandon Morena and cooperate with U.S. authorities to save themselves. "The cynical, corrupt, and narco-politicians who today feel protected by power will tomorrow be begging for deals to reduce their sentences," he warned. Moreno concluded by stating that the PRI would not tolerate Mexico being held hostage by "narco-politicians," asserting that under a PRI government, they would already be in jail.

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They defend them as if they were victims and not politicians accused of criminal relations. That is the network of cynics, corrupt people and narco-politicians who feel untouchable because they have the mantle of impunity.