During his years in Caracas, he forged a close relationship with the wife of then-President Hugo Chávez, Cilia Flores—who is also detained in the United States—and Diosdado Cabello, another figure accused by the White House of leading a criminal organization. His ties to Chavism did not stop there; he also cultivated a relationship with Alex Saab, the businessman accused of devising and commanding the Chavist illegal money laundering structure through which Caracas evaded international sanctions. In this context, the extradition of Alex Saab is a concern not only in Caracas but also in Mexico. On the other hand, the Secretary of Education himself, Mario Delgado, observed the departure of his subordinate with a certain calm, as this week he received two pieces of good news. As a result, for now, the 'Fourth Transformation' (4T) is beginning to cut ties, but the most important accusations point to the former governor. In this scenario, the extradition of Alex Saab is a concern not only in Caracas but also in Mexico. Additionally, the departure of Marx Arriaga comes days after the security structure led by Secretary Omar García Harfuch held a series of meetings with his counterparts from the United States in Washington, where they again discussed the current national situation and the worrying links that exist between figures of the 4T and criminal organizations, which the White House demands progress on. The scandalous departure of Marx Arriaga from the SEP is a new case of this strategy, which threatens to uncover business dealings and economic triangulations with the Venezuelan businessman Alex Saab, one of the most targeted figures by the US justice system. For some time, tensions had existed between the head of the SEP, Mario Delgado, and the now former General Delegate of Educational Materials. However, what led to his departure, federal sources recognize to LPO, were his ties to the money laundering structure led by businessman Alex Saab in the Chavist government. The national government led by Claudia Sheinbaum continues its attempts to cut the ties connecting the hard Obradorist wing with Chavism. In this scheme, the owner of the Globovisión television channel, Raúl Gorrín, is also implicated, who was also arrested this week by Venezuelan authorities. Sinaloa: Rocha now attempts to control a key union that is in the sights of drug trafficking. The arrest of Nicolás Maduro completely changed the Venezuelan landscape, and the strong coordination between the new president, Delcy Rodríguez, and the United States threatens to uncover information that is concerning in Mexico because it could mark figures of the 4T. In this context, in the National Palace, they seek to sever any existing ties between their businesses and the 4T. Delgado distances himself from Marx Arriaga, and the 'civil war' within the 4T escalates. In this framework, Marx Arriaga was one of the most pointed figures within the federal administration. The first was the accusations launched by Julio Scherer against Jesús Ramírez, whom he accused of bringing the huachicolero (fuel thief) businessman Sergio Carmona into the 4T's orbit, accusations that always fell on the former party president. Working with him was Sady Arturo Loaiza Escalona, who served as director of the National Library of Venezuela and the National Library System during Nicolás Maduro's government. Following US intervention in the Caribbean country, the businessman was arrested by Delcy Rodríguez's government and is expected to be extradited to Washington in the coming days. The intervention of the United States and the arrest of Nicolás Maduro have had a strong regional impact, which the officialism is trying to contain to avoid a major scandal. The second was the departure of Marx Arriaga, with whom he had had deep differences for a long time and whom he was finally able to remove from his sphere of control. As detailed by LPO, one of them is the current Undersecretary of Agriculture, Leonel Cota, who led the state-owned company Sagalmex during Andrés Manuel López Obrador's presidency and is accused of having undertaken a series of commercial transactions with Alex Saab to facilitate Venezuelan money laundering. However, in the capital's Zócalo, the accusations against Leonel Cota generate greater resentment due to his closeness to Andrés Manuel López Obrador, with whom he shares a decades-long friendship. In the 4T, they remember, for example, that Cota was the first elected governor in the history of the PRD, when he won the elections in Baja California Sur in 1994. Within this scheme, the production and distribution of books is cited as a front whose purpose was to insert into the system the money that Chavism received through illegal activities.
