Mexican Officials Have Become Informants for the Trump Administration

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/27/world/americas/mexican-officials-us-informants.html

Mexican Officials Have Become Informants for the Trump Administration
President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico has pushed back against U.S. investigations into Mexican politicians. Now some politicians want to cooperate.
By Steve Fisher, Jack Nicas and Alan Feuer
June 27, 2026

As the Trump administration ramps up its investigations into Mexico’s government, elected officials in the country’s governing party have been quietly offering themselves to U.S. authorities as informants against fellow party members, according to eight people involved in the conversations.

The discussions have come in the weeks since the United States indicted 10 current and former Mexican officials, charging them with colluding with one of the nation’s most powerful drug cartels. In turn, President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico has made challenging those investigations a rallying cry for her leftist political party, Morena, denouncing the indictments as foreign interference.

But behind the scenes, the conversations between some of her party members and U.S. authorities could hand the United States critical momentum at a delicate time in U.S.-Mexico relations, escalating the standoff between the two countries.

At least a dozen elected officials in Mexico — including governors and members of Congress, many from the governing party — have reached out to discuss sharing information about fellow politicians, multiple people said, and several have already begun talks with the United States.

Ms. Sheinbaum has often been regarded as a model for how to handle President Trump, but she is now stuck in a tightening predicament that illustrates the challenges for Latin America’s leftist leaders. Mr. Trump, who holds enormous sway over her country’s fortunes, wants her to turn over her political allies, while the left wing of her party, which provides her base of support, wants her to stand up to Mr. Trump.

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