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From 2006 to 2012 during Felipe Calderón’s presidency, Genaro García Luna was Mexico’s top law enforcement official, in charge of building a strategy to confront the powerful drug cartels and sharing ...

From 2006 to 2012 during Felipe Calderón’s presidency, Genaro García Luna was Mexico’s top law enforcement official, in charge of building a strategy to confront the powerful drug cartels and ...

In this Oct. 8, 2010, file photo, then Mexico's Secretary of Public Safety Genaro García Luna attends a press conference on the sidelines of an American Police Community (Ameripol) meeting in Mexico ...

From 2006 to 2012 during Felipe Calderón’s presidency, Genaro García Luna was Mexico’s top law enforcement official, in charge of building a strategy to confront the powerful drug cartels and ...

According to federal prosecutors, Genaro García Luna, once his country’s equivalent of J. Edgar Hoover, enabled El Chapo and others to operate with impunity.

The stiff penalty was the potentially final step in the stunning downfall of the former official, Genaro García Luna, who has gone from the heights of power to imprisonment. By Alan Feuer Genaro ...

NEW YORK — In the history of narco-corruption in Mexico, no higher-ranking official than Genaro García Luna ... be that the connection was at the Garcia Luna level.” Mexican President Claudia ...

Genaro García Luna, Mexico’s former secretary of public security, was convicted by a New York jury in 2023 of taking millions of dollars in bribes to protect the violent Sinaloa cartel that he ...

"His crimes demand justice." Mexican Federal Police Director Genaro Garcia Luna during a ceremony to celebrate National Police Day in Mexico City on June 2, 2012. García Luna, who was once hailed as a ...

But I would do it again, because it is the right thing to do.” Mexico's Genaro Garcia Luna speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Mexico City, Sept. 3, 2009. Credit: AP/Dario ...

Garcia Luna led Mexico's federal police before he ... Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn had asked a judge to order that Genaro García Luna be incarcerated for life, while his lawyers argued that ...