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Two Former Mexican Officials Accused of Narco Links Surrender to U.S. Authorities

By "El Huaso" for Borderland BeatThis week, two former senior officials from the Mexican state of Sinaloa, both accused by U.S. prosecutors of ties to the Sinaloa Cartel, surrendered to American authorities in separate incidents.Retired Mexican army general Gerardo Merida Sanchez, the former Minister of Public Security for Sinaloa state, turned himself in to the U.S. Marshalls after crossing the U.S. border in Hermosillo, Sonora. He was arrested…

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The future of the Mexican left begins to settle in the courts of the United States. On Friday, a former security secretary of the state of Sianloa, as well as a former finance secretary who were pointed out by New York prosecutors for alleged collusion with drug trafficking crossed the border and surrendered to the FBI. The movement has generated despair in the government of President Claudia Sheinbaum. Both former officials are part of a state …

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Rub n Rocha Moya faces greater pressure after two former government officials turned themselves over to U.S. authorities for alleged links to organized crime.

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The former Secretaries of Security and Administration and Finance of Sinaloa, Gerardo Mérida and Enrique Díaz, respectively, surrendered voluntarily to U.S. authorities.

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Claudia Sheinbaum avoided ruling on the delivery to the United States of Gerardo Mérida and Enrique Díaz, key men of Sinaloa Governor Rubén Rocha Moya. Upon her arrival at the inauguration of the Industrial and Service Technology Baccalaureate Center No. 305 in Merida, the president was questioned about Gerardo Mérida Sánchez and Enrique Díaz Vega, former Secretary of Public Security and Finance of Sinaloa, who surrendered to the U.S. authoritie…

The arrest in Arizona of the former Secretary of Security of Sinaloa, Gerardo Mérida, and the voluntary surrender of Enrique Díaz Vega, former Secretary of Administration and Finance, intensify friction between Mexico and Washington due to the alleged official protection of the Sinaloa Cartel, in a plot that splashes the governor with a Rubén Rocha license.

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Proceso broke the news in Mexico on Friday, May 15, 2026.
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