AT: Mexico’s self-righteous victim stance, wielded so often since the election of President Trump, may have to be put back in storage, at least for a while. Reuters reports:
The attorney general of Mexico’s Pacific coast state of Nayarit, hard hit by drug cartel violence in recent years, has been arrested in San Diego on U.S. narcotics trafficking conspiracy charges, federal officials said on Wednesday.
Edgar Veytia, 45, who has served as the top law enforcement officer of Nayarit since 2013, was charged in a seven-page, three-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury on Monday in the New York borough of Brooklyn and unsealed on Tuesday.
He was taken into custody on Monday in San Diego by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration and Homeland Security Investigations, acting on an arrest warrant, an FBI spokeswoman in San Diego said.
The arrest is another blow for Mexico President Enrique Pena Nieto’s Institutional Revolutionary Party, which governs Nayarit and is reeling from corruption scandals that have led a number of former governors to flee criminal charges.
This news is, in Trumpian parlance, yuuge. Nayarit is a coastal state, and is part of the region that has sent many immigrants, legal and illegal, to California. more here
How can they arrest him in a sanctuary state?
The guy looks a lot like William Conrad of Jake and the Fatman, Marshall Dillon on radios Gunsmoke and the narrator of Rocky and Bullwinkle. Not quite as chubby but he’ll get there. Or Higgins on Magnum P.I. The mustache gives it away.
It’s hard to claim you’re not a failed state when you AG is working for the Cartels.
For no other reason we should build a fence between our two nations.
A crooked Mexican official. Go figure.
You know, Mexico isn’t sending us their best. Where have I heard that?
Diplomatic Immunity!!!!
Hang him from an overpass with piano wire and
send them pictures.
Then build the goddamn wall.
@Pelopidas March 31, 2017 at 3:49 pm
“It’s hard to claim you’re not a failed state when you AG is working for the Cartels.”
Define “cartel.”