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Federal prosecutors in New York have charged Sinaloa Governor Rubén Rocha Moya and nine other current and former Mexican officials with drug trafficking and weapons offenses, alleging they conspired with the Sinaloa Cartel's Chapitos faction to import fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine into the United States. The unprecedented indictment of a sitting Mexican governor puts President Claudia Sheinbaum in a political bind between cooperating with the Trump administration and protecting her own Morena party, all while USMCA trade negotiations hang in the balance.