21-07-2025
Sheinbaum Ally Hit by Scandal Over Alleged Ties to Drug Cartels
A bubbling political scandal reaching into the senior ranks of Mexico's ruling party is threatening to chip away at President Claudia Sheinbaum's carefully constructed image as a crime fighter.
The leftist Morena party's Senate leader, Adán Augusto López, finds himself at the center of the storm, after an arrest warrant was issued for his top security official when López previously served as governor of southern Tabasco state. The warrant cites alleged links to organized crime.