Claudia Sheinbaum Torched Joe Biden for the Cartel War Explosion on Her Watch that Trump is Now Dealing With

Claudia Sheinbaum just blamed Joe Biden for a Sinaloa cartel war that has killed thousands.

But she is also hiding her own governor's ties to the same cartel.

She picked the exact week for a reason nobody in Mexico City wants asked about.

The Guzmán Betrayal Sheinbaum Left Out of Her Story

Sheinbaum stood at her morning podium and told Mexico that Biden's people started this.

She claimed if U.S. agents had just looped in her government before grabbing Sinaloa boss Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, none of it would have happened.

No split, no war, no bodies stacking up across Sinaloa – that is the story she is selling.

Here is what she left out.

El Mayo was not taken down by some Biden task force acting alone.

He was betrayed by his own – lured onto a plane by Joaquín Guzmán López, son of "El Chapo," and flown straight into the arms of U.S. agents waiting on a Texas runway.

Guzmán López admitted it himself in his plea deal – he set up the man who helped build the Sinaloa Cartel, hoping Washington would go easy on him.

That is not a Biden policy failure.

That is a cartel prince selling out an old man to save his own skin.

Sheinbaum knows this.

She has had over a year of leaked photos, court filings, and DOJ statements laying it out in detail.

She chose to blame Biden anyway, because the real story points somewhere far closer to home.

The Governor She Still Won't Touch

While Sheinbaum lectures Washington about cartel violence, her own Sinaloa governor is sitting under a U.S. indictment for helping run the cartel that started this war.

Rubén Rocha Moya and nine of his top officials stand accused of taking millions in bribes to shield Los Chapitos from prosecution.

Federal prosecutors say Rocha Moya's own 2021 election win came with an assist from cartel gunmen who kidnapped and intimidated his opposition.

Rocha Moya is Morena, Sheinbaum's own party, and a loyalist to her mentor Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Instead of handing him over, Sheinbaum has invoked national sovereignty to block U.S. help fighting the cartels, publicly defending Rocha Moya and insisting there is no proof against him.

He took a leave of absence instead of resigning, a move that lets him keep the legal immunity that comes with the office.

Sheinbaum will not say his name in the same breath as the cartel violence she is blaming on Biden.

That silence is the tell.

Timing Is Not an Accident

Her government just announced it is filing criminal complaints against ICE and suing the private companies that run U.S. detention centers over the deaths of Mexican nationals.

An ICE agent shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston on July 7 after he tried to run over an officer, and within days Sheinbaum was standing at a podium demanding accountability from America.

She wants Americans furious at ICE agents defending themselves on U.S. soil.

She does not want Americans asking why her own party protected the cartel behind it in the first place.

Blaming Biden for a betrayal inside a criminal organization gives her cover on both fronts at once.

It lets her dodge questions about Rocha Moya, and it hands her a talking point against Trump's ICE agents in the same breath.

Trump has spent eighteen months pressuring Sheinbaum to break the cartel-political alliance running Sinaloa, and the Rocha Moya indictment is the clearest signal yet that Washington is done waiting for Mexico to police itself.

Sheinbaum can hand over the officials protecting the cartel, or she can keep blaming an administration that's no longer in office for a war that corruption inside her own party helped fuel.

Biden cannot hold a press conference to correct the record, and Rocha Moya is not going anywhere as long as she needs his party's loyalty more than she needs the truth.

Sheinbaum's own security forces killed Jalisco cartel boss "El Mencho" earlier this year, and her government bragged about it as proof she can handle cartels without American help.

She cannot lean on that success story now, because it undercuts the version where Biden's DOJ is the villain and her hands are clean.

So she reached back to 2024 instead, to an arrest her own government admitted it had no part in – and dressed it up as an American mistake rather than a betrayal cooked up inside the cartel itself.

Sheinbaum wants Americans blaming ICE for the splinters while she protects the men who built the bomb.

That is not sovereignty.

That is cover.

Sources:

• Ildefonso Ortiz, "Mexican President Blames Biden-Era Policies for Rise in Cartel Violence," Breitbart, July 11, 2026.
• Breitbart Staff, "Mexico's Top Diplomat Announces Legal Actions Against ICE, Detention Centers Over Migrant Deaths," Breitbart, July 9, 2026.
• David Manney, "Sheinbaum Turns an ICE Shooting Into a Sovereignty Fight," PJ Media, July 9, 2026.