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Former Mexican Top Security Official Sentenced to More Than 38 Years in Prison For Cartel Bribes

Prosecutors say that García Luna provided intelligence about investigations against the cartel, information about rivals and the safe passage of drug shipments

Latin Times

Mexico's Former Security Chief Faces Life Sentence For Drug Trafficking

Former Mexican security chief García Luna faces life sentence for aiding drug traffickers. Revelations of bribery and ties to Sinaloa cartel emerge.

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Mexican president calls on ex-security secretary to show proof of alleged cartel ties

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is demanding that former secretary of public security Genaro García Luna, who was convicted on drug trafficking charges in the United States last year, present evidence to support his accusations that the president has links to drug trafficking

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Convicted Mexican Security Chief Publishes Letter From Prison Linking President AMLO to Drug Cartels

Genaro Garcia Luna is currently waiting for sentencing on October 9 in the same New York prison as "El Mayo" Zambada

Latin Times

'El Mayo' Zambada joins 'El Nini' and Genaro García Luna in New York City's notorious prison

Mexican drug-dealer Ismael El Mayo Zambada is sharing the jail with other Mexican organized crime figures like El Nini and Genaro García Luna

Latin Times

Former Mexican security chief convicted of drug trafficking will stay behind bars as judge rejects plea

Genaro García Luna's defense had alleged there was a plot among inmates to falsely testify against him

Latin Times

Judge says Mexican ex-official tried to bribe inmates in a bid for new US drug trial

A judge says a former high-ranking Mexican official who was convicted in a U.S. drug case tried to bribe fellow inmates into making false statements to support his bid for a new trial

The Independent UK

AMLO questions U.S. judiciary for postponed sentencing of convicted ex-security chief Genaro García Luna

"They're starting to resemble the judges we have here (Mexico), who shelve or store away cases", said the Mexican president

Latin Times

Mexican president hopes ex security chief will turn informer

Mexico's president says he hopes that former security chief Genaro García Luna will turn state's evidence in the U.S. and perhaps implicate former Mexican presidents

The Independent UK

Former Mexican minister convicted in US of drug trafficking

A former Mexican presidential cabinet member was convicted in the US on Tuesday of taking massive bribes to protect the violent drug cartels he was tasked with combating.

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Genaro García Luna: Mexico’s ex-security minister convicted of bribes and drug smuggling

Prosecutors say El Chapo’s cartel couldn’t have built a “global cocaine empire” without García Luna

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Mexico's former public security head is convicted in the U.S. of taking cartel bribes

García Luna headed Mexico's federal police and became the country's top public safety official between 2006 and 2012. He was convicted of taking large bribes from drug cartels.

The Independent UK

Mexico’s ex-public security chief convicted in US drug case

A U.S. jury has convicted a former Mexican presidential cabinet member of taking massive bribes to protect the drug cartels he was tasked with combating

Los Angeles Times

Trial in New York has Mexico riveted as jury contemplates fate of former Mexican security chief

MEXICO CITY — He has talked about the case for months, likening it to a television crime drama and saying its revelations dramatize the deep corruption of his predecessors.

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The Independent UK

Key witness testifies about bribing ex-Mexico security chief

A key prosecution witness has testified that he delivered millions of dollars in payoffs destined for former Mexican public safety chief Genaro García Luna and saw him leave with the bags of cash

The Guardian - US

Mexican ex-security chief on trial: multimillion bribe claims and a cat named cocaine

Cartel operators, ex-police and a former government official have testified against Genaro García Luna with allegations of cash drops and kidnappings

Foreign Policy

Mexico’s Government Is on Trial in New York

A former Mexican security official’s corruption charges reveal the hidden politics of the drug trade.

The Independent UK

Mexico’s former safety chief goes on trial in US drug case

An anonymous jury has gotten its first look at a rare U.S. trial of a former cabinet-level Mexican official charged with taking bribes to aid drug traffickers he was supposed to be neutralizing

The Independent UK

Mexico's former safety chief goes on trial in US drug case

An anonymous jury has gotten its first look at a rare U.S. trial of a former cabinet-level Mexican official charged with taking bribes to aid drug traffickers he was supposed to be neutralizing

The Independent UK

US drug trial opens for Mexico ex-security head

Genaro García Luna goes on trial on charges of helping the Sinaloa Cartel traffic drugs and protect them from capture while he was serving as Mexico’s top security official

The Guardian - US

Ex-Mexico security chief’s trial poised to lift lid on US and Mexico’s ‘war on drugs’

Genaro García Luna, accused of accepting millions in bribes from cartels, in trial that could implicate officials on both sides of border

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