Times are tough for Claudia Sheinbaum.
In addition to deep concerns about tariff threats from the Trump administration, the Mexican president finds her party, Morena, embroiled in a narco scandal involving one of her top party officials in the Senate, Adán Augusto López. The situation threatens to profoundly undermine both the Mexican public’s confidence in the party and the United States’ confidence in the government.
The scandal erupted the weekend of July 12, when the regional military commander in the Mexican state of Tabasco made public that he had a warrant to arrest Tabasco’s ex–secretary of security, Hernán Bermúdez Requena. Bermúdez was appointed to head the state’s security portfolio in 2018 by López, who was then serving as the Governor of Tabasco.
Unfortunately for López, it has since come out that the ex-secretary also happened to be known as Comandante H, leader of the cartel La Barredora in Tabasco. A number of other high-profile members of the state police and prosecutor’s office were also involved with the gang.
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