INE Orders PRI Leader 'Alito' Moreno to Remove Posts Calling Morena a 'Narco-Party'

The INE's Complaints and Grievances Commission unanimously ordered PRI national president Alejandro 'Alito' Moreno Cárdenas and the PRI's official accounts to remove social media posts describing Morena as a 'narcopartido,' 'narcogobierno,' 'narcodictadura,' and similar terms, ruling on an urgent request for precautionary measures filed by Morena. The commission found five posts from Moreno's personal accounts and four from PRI's institutional accounts could constitute unfounded imputations of criminal conduct. Moreno rejected the ruling as political censorship, said the PRI would challenge it — including before international bodies — and vowed to keep denouncing alleged links between Morena and organized crime, declaring 'the truth doesn't disappear because they order a post deleted.' President Sheinbaum welcomed the resolution. The clash marked an escalation in PRI's oppositional posture heading into the 2027 midterms and revived the decades-long debate over narco-political ties spanning PRI, PAN, and Morena governments.