{"id":4002,"date":"2026-05-02T21:01:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/?p=4002"},"modified":"2026-05-02T21:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:13:14","slug":"governor-rocha-of-sinaloa-says-hes-innocent-takes-temporary-leave-of-absence-from-governorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/governor-rocha-of-sinaloa-says-hes-innocent-takes-temporary-leave-of-absence-from-governorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Rocha of Sinaloa Says He’s Innocent; Takes Temporary Leave of Absence from Governorship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On April 29th, a U.S. federal court indicted ten Mexican officials and former officials, all from the state of Sinaloa, for involvement with the\u00a0Chapitos<\/em>\u00a0faction of the Sinaloa Cartel. [See U.S. Court Indicts Ten Mexican Officials and Former Officials for Cartel Involvement; What Will Sheinbaum Do?<\/a>] The night before, the U.S. government had sent the Mexican foreign ministry extradition requests for the indicted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The biggest fish in the kettle was Ruben Rocha Moya, current Governor of the state of Sinaloa, and a member of President Sheinbaum\u2019s MORENA party.
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Ruben Rocha Moya. Source: Presidency of Mexico<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Well, on the night of May 1st, Governor Rocha announced that<\/a>, although he is innocent, he is taking a leave of absence from the governorship, in order to fight the charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can watch a video of Governor Rocha making his statement here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On April 29th, a U.S. federal court indicted ten Mexican officials and former officials, all from the state of Sinaloa, for involvement with the\u00a0Chapitos\u00a0faction of the Sinaloa Cartel. [See U.S. Court Indicts Ten Mexican Officials and Former Officials for Cartel … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[580,25],"tags":[27,212,208,492],"class_list":["post-4002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-crime","tag-claudia-sheinbaum","tag-ruben-rocha-moya","tag-sinaloa-state","tag-the-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4002"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4007,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002\/revisions\/4007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}