It staggers the mind that NONE of the Big Three networks bothered with the story including today’s indictment of Sinaloa state governor Rubén Rocha
The Elitist Media Evening News hid a major story from the American public on Wednesday night, by failing to report on the indictment of 10 senior officials from the Mexican state of Sinaloa- home of the major drug cartel once headed by “El Chapo” Guzman. This omitted story has major ramifications on both sides of the border and with regard to our national security.
The only over-the-air national evening newscast to carry the indictment was PBS News Hour. Here is that brief in its entirety, as aired on Wednesday, April 29th, 2026:
AMNA NAWAZ: The Justice Department is charging 10 current and former Mexican officials with conspiring with a powerful cartel to import drugs into the U.S. Among those named in today’s indictment is Sinaloa state governor Rubén Rocha. He’s accused of protecting Sinaloa cartel members in exchange for bribes and political support, which he denies. Rocha is a member of the political party led by President Claudia Sheinbaum. She has said her government is cracking down on corruption, though President Trump has insisted that more needs to be done. None of those charged today are currently in custody.
It’s a wee bit more than “ten government officials” including the governor, though, Per Fox News:
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York claims officials took millions in bribes from the “Chapitos” faction of the Sinaloa Cartel, allowed the cartel to operate with total impunity and helped transform the region into the global epicenter of the deadly narcotics trade.
In a public statement, Mexico’s SRE confirmed the U.S. Embassy in Mexico received the extradition requests Tuesday night. However, after a legal review, the Mexican government said the U.S. documents “do not have evidentiary elements” to determine the officials are responsible for the alleged crimes.
You have a major indictment, and the Mexican government is pushing back. The allegations are eye-watering. Per the indictment:
As alleged, the defendants have been most closely aligned with the faction of the Cartel run by the sons of Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera, a/k/a “El Chapo,” the Cartel’s notorious former leader, who are themselves known collectively as the “Chapitos.” The defendants have operated at all levels of government and law enforcement in Sinaloa and each abused their positions of trust and authority to help facilitate the Chapitos’ operations. For example, ROCHA MOYA was elected Governor of Sinaloa, a position he has held since on or about November 1, 2021, after the Chapitos allegedly helped him get elected by, among other things, kidnapping and intimidating his rivals. In exchange, both before and after he became Governor, ROCHA MOYA allegedly attended meetings with the Chapitos, at which he promised to protect the Chapitos as they distributed massive quantities of drugs to the United States and, as Governor, ROCHA MOYA has allowed the Chapitos to operate with impunity in Sinaloa. Similarly, the other defendants have directly and repeatedly helped the Chapitos in exchange for massive drug-fueled bribes. For example, ZAAVEDRA, who is the Deputy Attorney General for the Sinaloa State Attorney General’s Office, has received approximately $11,000 U.S. dollars each month from the Chapitos and, in exchange, has protected Chapitos members from arrest and informed the Chapitos of planned U.S.-backed law enforcement operations.
Certain of the defendants are also alleged to have themselves directly participated in the Cartel’s campaign of violence and retribution. For example, MILLAN, a high-level commander in the Culiacan Municipal Police, allegedly received more than approximately $1,600 U.S. dollars each month from the Chapitos. In exchange, MILLAN gave the Chapitos unfettered access to the Culiacan Municipal Police and used officers from the police force to help the Chapitos maintain their control over Culiacan, including through arrests, kidnappings, and murder. In or about October 2023, MILLAN allegedly helped the Chapitos kidnap a DEA confidential source and the source’s relative, who the Chapitos then had tortured and killed, because the source was suspected of providing information to the Government in connection with this investigation.
It isn’t just the governor that appears to be compromised, but the state’s deputy attorney general and senior police commanders. Given what has been published about cartel activity within the United States and their potential collaboration with malign foreign actors, how is this not an A-block story?
What happens when the U.S. seeks extradition of the governor? Does the Mexican government continue to push back? Do they hand him over and risk him singing like a canary and potentially revealing the extent to which the current and prior administrations are/were compromised by the cartels? A proper media would be asking these questions. Instead, they will likely feign surprise and blame President Trump if the U.S. escalates its efforts to secure the suspects.
It staggers the mind that NONE of the Big Three networks bothered with the story. The networks universally covered Queen Camilla hanging out with Sarah Jessica Parker, the unruly passenger that opened the hatch on a United flight, and Ed Sheeran’s shingles. But they had zero time for a major national security story. Many such cases, unfortunately.
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Blackburn, Klobuchar slam Mark Zuckerberg for banning law firm ads for victims of social media addiction: ‘Disturbing’
Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) blasted Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg on Friday over the tech giant’s “disturbing” move to take down ads from law firms that offered to represent victims of social media addiction.
Meta started yanking ads off Facebook and Instagram in April after losing blockbuster verdicts in Los Angeles and New Mexico that found the company failed to protect kids. One of the ads proclaimed that Meta knew its apps were causing anxiety, depression and self-harm but “kept targeting kids anyway.”
Meta’s ad ban is “nothing more than an attempt to preserve a harmful business model at all costs — one that actively profits off the addiction of this nation’s youth,” the senators wrote in a letter to Zuckerberg, a copy of which was exclusively obtained by The Post.
“In fact, Meta’s actions expressly conflict with its recent policy changes to ‘allow more speech’ and to stop removing or demoting content, except in the most extreme circumstances,” the senators added.
Meta and other social companies are facing unprecedented heat over their failure to protect minors online. The company is a defendant, alongside YouTube parent Google, TikTok and Snap, in more than 2,400 lawsuits in California federal court brought by school districts, state attorneys general and individuals.
In their letter, Blackburn and Klobuchar pointed to Meta’s own internal documents, which showed that the company estimated in 2024 that 10% of its overall revenue — or $16 billion — was derived from scam ads that ran on its apps.
“That Meta makes billions of dollars from fraudulent ads makes clear that Meta is removing these ads only to protect its bottom line,” the senators wrote.
Axios, which first reported on the law firm ad removals on April 9, identified more than a dozen ads that had been scrubbed from Meta’s apps, including solicitations from major law firms like Morgan & Morgan and Sokolove Law.
Meta spokesman Andy Stone said the company would “not allow trial lawyers to profit from our platforms while simultaneously claiming they are harmful.”
“We’re actively defending ourselves against these lawsuits and are removing ads that attempt to recruit plaintiffs for them,” Stone added.
Stone said Meta has made significant efforts to improve the safety of its apps in recent years, including a rollout of “Teen Accounts” on Instagram.
On March 24, a New Mexico state jury slapped Meta with a $375 million penalty for failing to protect kids from sexual predators. Meta has since threatened to leave the state entirely if a judge orders what it called “impractical” safety updates to its apps.
Elsewhere, a Los Angeles state jury found Meta and YouTube owner Google liable for $6 million in damages to a woman called KGM, who alleged that the apps fueled her descent into anxiety and depression.
Blackburn and Klobuchar both endorse the Kids Online Safety Act — a long-stalled piece of legislation that would impose a legal “duty of care” on social media companies, among other standards meant to protect users.
“While we are glad that courts are beginning to hold Meta accountable for its conduct, the systemic change that parents demand and our children deserve must come from Congress and we will not stop until Congress takes decisive action to protect our children from harms that continue to occur across the internet, including on Meta’s platform,” the lawmakers added.
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