Clearing the electoral path*.

By Adela Navarro

Suddenly, in the midst of Mexico's Independence Day celebrations, Mexican authorities, in what seemed like a shortcut, extradited Ovidio Guzmán López el Ratón to the United States. This was an action that was bound to happen sooner or later. The son of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera had been arrested in January of this year, with an arrest warrant for extradition purposes.

Indeed, the scion of the Sinaloa Cartel kingpin was not wanted in Mexico for prosecution for crimes committed in this country. In fact, it was not until his arrest, his second, that an investigation was opened in Sonora. Neither the Attorney General's Office nor the Government of the Republic's Secretariat of Citizen Security investigated, or at least did not make public, the violent events that occurred during Ovidio's first arrest in 2019, when Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in his capacity as President, gave the order to release him, but the criminal action left at least 19 dead, among other damages and seizures.