Posted on 05/12/2025 8:49:14 AM PDT by DFG
A photograph with a prominent drug cartel figure may be behind the Trump administration's refusal to grant a top Mexican politician a visa to enter the United States.
The picture showed Baja California governor Marina del Pilar Avila hugging Emmanuel 'El Botas' Serrano while she was campaigning for mayor of the border town of Mexicali in 2019.
Serrano allegedly reports directly to Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada, who leads half of the infamously brutal Sinaloa Cartel.
The photo first emerged in September 2022, with the governor's office disputing allegations that she had any ties to the so-called El Botas.
'It's a common knowledge that during political campaigns, hundreds of people approach to take a photo and even mingle with a candidate, as was the case during the four electoral campaigns in which the governor has contested,' del Pilar's office said in a statement.
Del Pilar Avila announced on Sunday that she and her husband, Carlos Torres, had their tourist visas revoked.
While she did not provide any reason for the revocation in her X post, Torres wrote on Facebook Saturday that it 'does not represent an accusation, investigation or formal incident by any authority, neither in Mexico nor in the United States.'
Torres, who serves as the coordinator of special projects within the Baja California state administration and for the city of Tijuana, also claimed that the revocation is 'a measure that, as is with many people in similar contexts, responds to internal arrangements of the State Department.'
'Currently, the application of these administrative criteria has become increasingly common and like so many others, I am included in that universe,' Torres told his followers.
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Hahahahaha...when we look at a picture of Trump shaking the hand of someone like Klaus Schwab or some other unsavory character, we don’t get too bent about it because famous people have this kind of thing happen all the time.
In the case of this woman, they have their arms around each other like lovers! So it does make one a little suspicious that they don’t know each other!
There is no way you can be a politician in Mexico without the support of the drug cartels.
Yeah, that’s not just a casual hug with some random voter. It borders on intimate. You don’t hug a woman like that unless you are pretty close, or you own her. Maybe both in this case.
Cartels control Mexico, they now control Avila.
odd to call that photo a hug on campaign trail. Looks like a couple, the way the guy has both arms around her and his hands overlapping pulling her closer.
probably most. current and (recently) former az politicians have ties.
Now we know where her campaign funds came from. Seems the same place that the governor of New Mexico gets her political funds.
Those elected officials in DC aren’t dumb enough to have their picture taken with their narco cartel buddies.
A photograph with a prominent drug cartel figure may
I’m inherently polite. Which is why I would decline to meet them.
politicians photos are taken with alot people that they do not know
hugging?
not so much
Yeah...Emmanuel and Marina were doing the nasty.
The Mexican President recently publicly declined President Trumps offer of zuS military assistance in Mexico against the drug cartels. I think she is well aware. Even as Mexico”s President, that their drug cartels would kill her and her entire family out to and including 4th cousins, if she crossed them.
Thugette:
Mexican Thug:
Low Rent Mexican Thug
All Owned by Los Cartelistas de Sinaloa
“Blagojevich? The disgraced governor? Never met the guy.” Brak Obama
Pictures surface of them blowing each other, as it were.
I have a feeling that she knew just who she was hugging.
You racist. Drug cartels are part of Mexico’s rich cultural heritage./s
As Mexican as dissentery and bribery.
I agree. That’s a pretty intimate action.
+1
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