The month-long proceedings shone a spotlight on the corruption of the highest ranking Mexican government figure ever to face trial in the United States. theSun theSundaily court drug Mexico USA
Attorney Cesar de Castro speaks to members of the media after a verdict was announced at the courthouse where the trial of former Mexican Secretary of Public Security Genaro Garcia Luna is being held, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on February 21, 2023. AFPPIX: A once-powerful Mexican government minister was convicted by a US jury Tuesday of aiding the very drug smuggling he was tasked with cracking down on.
It also opened a window on the vast resources of the Sinaloa Cartel under Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who is now serving a life sentence in a US penitentiary. He is due to be sentenced on June 27 and faces a mandatory minimum term of 20 years imprisonment and a maximum of life behind bars. Prosecutors argued that Garcia Luna, who held high-ranking security positions in Mexico from 2001 until 2012, was the cartel’s “partner in crime.”
Garcia Luna served as chief of the Mexican equivalent of the FBI from 2001 until 2006, when he was elevated to become secretary of public security, essentially running the federal police force and most counterdrug operations.
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