During the administration of the governor of Sinaloa, Ruben Rocha Moyathe intentional homicides and extortion registered an increase.
In 2022 was 478 victimswhile in 2025, 1,656an increase of 1,178.
According to statistics from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP), in the last two months of 2021, 86 victims were documented; in 2022, 478; in 2023, 531; in 2024, 994; in 2025, 1,656, and in the first quarter of 2026, 293. That is, on a monthly average there are deprived of life 76 people.
He crime of extortion In this same period, there was also an increase: in 2022, 64 victims were registered and in 2025, 105, that is, 41 more people.
Armando Rodríguez Lunaindependent consultant in the analysis of political, social and security risks. securitysays that the license granted by the entity’s Congress to the Morenoist governor represents challenges for the federal government, as well as for Sinaloa society, because with such questioned and delegitimized institutions it is not possible to exercise any type of authority.
The consultant emphasizes that a federal intervention much more important in these areas: government, security and justice, to guarantee the stability of the state.
“And that makes it a more vulnerable point for a possible United States military interventionin the style Venezuela with Nicolas Maduro…They already did it with Ismael El Mayo Zambada in a more clandestine way, in the style of the Central Intelligence Agency (INCfor its acronym in English), when they took him away,” he considers.
Francisco Rivas Rodríguezdirector of the National Citizen Observatory (ONC), says that Rocha Moya will probably go down in history as the worst governor of Sinaloa.
He comments that the people of that entity live a deep security crisisand although not the entire state has the same levels of danger as it does Culiacan“the truth is that the roads and the people themselves tell you where you can move and where you cannot move.”
The doctor in International Relations Arlene Ramirez Urestiprofessor at the Universidad Iberoamericana, indicates that Rocha Moya’s removal from office is a sign of the Mexican government’s will in the face of the United States requisition.
“It is important so that certainty can be given that due process will be followed (…),” he says.
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