The wife of a powerful drug cartel boss was released from prison in Mexico on Thursday, according to local media and judicial sources.
Rosalinda Gonzalez is married to Nemesio Oseguera, leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, one of Mexico’s largest, most powerful and ultra-violent criminal organizations.
Gonzalez is believed to manage the financial operations of the cartel, which was among the Latin American drug trafficking groups designated as terrorist organizations by Washington last week.
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Arrested in 2021, she was sentenced to five years in prison for the illicit financial operation of an organized criminal group.
A judicial source told AFP that a court hearing was scheduled inside the prison on Thursday to decide whether Gonzalez should be released on grounds of good behavior and having served more than half her sentence.
Local television footage later showed Gonzalez and her lawyer leaving the prison in the state of Morelos and driving away in a van.
It comes on the same day that 29 drug traffickers being held in Mexican prisons were extradited to the United States.
Mexico is hoping to make a deal with Washington and avoid being hit with trade duties that US President Donald Trump has linked to illegal migration and drug flows.
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Trump has designated eight Latin American drug trafficking organizations as terrorist organizations, including the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, which emerged in 2010.
Oseguera, alias “El Mecho,” who is accused of fentanyl and methamphetamine trafficking, is one of the most wanted people in Mexico and the United States, where authorities have offered a $15 million reward for his capture.