“We're coming for you”: Trump's anti-drug czar targets Mexican politicians linked to drug trafficking
The director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy threatens with arrest warrants against those who "have sold themselves to the cartels"
Sara Carter, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), told the American Thought Leaders program that Donald Trump's Government seeks to dismantle the structures of criminal groups in Mexico, "including those within the Government who have sold out to the cartels," Mexican and US media reported this Sunday (06/14/2026).
Carter, considered the US president's anti-drug czar, indicated that the Trump Government targets Mexican politicians who work hand in hand with organized crime organizations, to obtain arrest warrants against them, highlights the Mexican magazine Proceso.
Although he did not mention people by name, Proceso considers that Carter clearly referred, for example, to Rubén Rocha Moya, governor of Sinaloa (for the ruling Morena party), whom the United States justice system accuses of colluding with the branch of the Sinaloa cartel led by the sons of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera.
Unprecedented Mexico-USA cooperation. USA
Other media in English or Spanish, such as El País, from Spain, or Heraldo USA, from the US, highlight that the head of the US anti-drug fight also highlighted the cooperation that the US has achieved with Mexico, during the Government of Claudia Sheinbaum: “We have never seen anything like this” as El País quotes.
"Right now, you know, we are attacking the people of Sinaloa, all the government officials who are part of the Culiacán clan, who have protected the Sinaloa Cartel, Los Chapitos and Los Mayitos and the entire Joaquín Guzmán operation. We can do it because the Mexican Government, like many governments in our hemisphere, knows that President Trump keeps his word, without a doubt," Proceso quotes her, for her part.
Carter's statements come to light in the midst of the tug-of-war between the Sheinbaum and Trump governments over the best way to combat criminal groups.
The United States has thanked the Mexican Government for its "cooperation" in the arrest of criminal actors, while continuing to criticize it for its alleged protection of politicians linked to organized crime groups, or for threatening to intervene militarily against drug trafficking cartels in Mexican territory.