The US Justice Department on Wednesday, April 29, charged the governor of the Mexican state of Sinaloa and other officials with drug trafficking. The US attorney for the Southern District of New York said 10 people, including Governor Ruben Rocha Moya, are accused of working with the Sinaloa cartel to distribute “massive quantities” of narcotics to the United States.

Without mentioning this indictment, Mexico’s Foreign Ministry said it received US extradition requests for “various people.” It complained that cases like this are normally handled confidentially under bilateral treaties, rather than being announced publicly first, and said it would send a note of protest to the US embassy “over the way it was announced.”