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Day 600 — FGR Issues Formal Subpoenas to Sinaloa Governor Rocha Moya and Chihuahua Governor Maru Campos

| Sheinbaum (2024–)

On May 24, 2026 (Day 600), the Fiscalía General de la República (FGR) issued formal subpoenas ('citatorios') to two state governors. RUBÉN ROCHA MOYA: The suspended Sinaloa governor — who took a 30-day leave of absence on May 2, 2026 after the U.S. DOJ indicted him on April 29 for alleged conspiracy with Los Chapitos to import narcotics — was subpoenaed to appear before a ministerial agent to give an 'interview' (declaración ministerial) regarding the U.S. SDNY accusations. The interview is not a formal arrest or charge under Mexican law; Rocha Moya is not in preventive detention because the FGR found insufficient evidence for an extradition arrest on April 30. Rocha Moya responded publicly: 'Soy un hombre que no tiene nada que temer' (I am a man who has nothing to fear). MARU CAMPOS: Chihuahua Governor María Eugenia Campos Galván (PAN, opposition) was summoned as a witness in the FGR's expanded investigation of the April 20, 2026 CIA-Chihuahua incident — in which two CIA agents (Richard Leiter Johnston III and John Dudley Black) died in a traffic accident while returning from an unauthorized joint narco-lab demolition with Chihuahua state investigators (AEI). Her appearance was scheduled for May 27 in Ciudad Juárez. Campos is the same governor whose 2022 bilateral security agreement with Texas Sheinbaum publicly questioned on May 23. CONTEXT: The FGR summons represent an escalation of the CIA-Chihuahua and Sinaloa cartel probe to the gubernatorial level — unprecedented in the breadth of the investigation. At her May 25 mañanera, Sheinbaum clarified that the subpoenas do not constitute formal criminal accusations and that her government 'guarantees there is no political persecution' of the summoned officials, while affirming judicial independence.

FGR formally subpoenas Sinaloa Governor Rocha Moya (DOJ narco-ties probe) and Chihuahua Governor Maru Campos (CIA-Chihuahua witness) — governor-level FGR investigations reach unprecedented scope
FGR formally subpoenas Sinaloa Governor Rocha Moya (DOJ narco-ties probe) and Chihuahua Governor Maru Campos (CIA-Chihuahua witness) — governor-level FGR investigations reach unprecedented scope — La Jornada