In recent years, the Mexican government has done everything possible to change the narrative and demonstrate that America’s main trading partner is also its main ally on immigration and the fight against illegal drug-trafficking. Despite these efforts, the country’s recent judicial elections sent the wrong message, turning Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán’s iconic lawyer, Silvia Delgado García, into the new poster child for Mexico’s judicial system.

In February, President Claudia Sheinbaum’s administration handed over to the U.S. Rafael Caro Quintero, a drug lord linked to the 1985 murder of DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena. It was no small feat. Former Presidents Ronald Reagan, George Bush (father and son), Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden all tried to convince Mexico to help them capture the person responsible for........

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