U.S. indicts Mexican governor on drug trafficking charges

MEXICO CITY — The Trump administration launched a bombshell offensive Wednesday against Mexican government officials accused of complicity with the notorious Sinaloa cartel, unsealing federal indictments against the sitting governor, a federal senator and eight other current and former Mexican officials in the northwestern state of Sinaloa.

The sprawling, 34-page indictment, filed in U.S. District Court in New York, outlines an alleged pattern of bribes, murders, kidnappings and other crimes linked to high-ranking lawmakers and security chiefs.

The indictment paints a devastating picture of an outlaw state at the service of the Sinaloa cartel — the multibillion-dollar syndicate co-founded by the infamous Joaquín

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