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prosecutors say the 10 law enforcement and government officials shielded cartel members in exchange for bribes and political favor.

Mexico's president says Mexico will decide whether there's enough evidence against the defendants to extradite them, and warned she won't allow interference from foreign governments in her own country's affairs.

The U.S.

regularly prosecutes alleged cartel members, but rarely the politicians accused of protecting them.

Vonda Felba Brown is with the Brookings Institution.

The highest-ranking official charged, the current governor of Sinaloa, and other defendants have denied wrongdoing.

For NPR News, I'm Nina Kravinsky in Hermosillo, Mexico.

Cuba's electrical grid continues to crumble amid a U.S.

energy blockade.

The White House in January said it would put tariffs on any country that sends oil to Cuba.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum told reporters Mexico was looking for ways to provide Cuba with fuel without impacting her country.

Mexico was one of Cuba's major oil suppliers before the U.S.

ban.

It's the Cuban people who must decide how to govern themselves without foreign intervention, Sheinbaum said.

Mexico's navy delivered more than 800 tons of humanitarian supplies to Cuba last month.

For NPR News, I'm Nina Kravinsky in Hermosillo, Mexico.

It felt good because I got to see my friends again.

And they helped me feel safer.

Cuba's electrical grid continues to crumble amid a U.S.