US courts have recognized former Mexican minister Genaro Garcia Luna, who was previously known in his country for his efforts to fight drugs, corruption and cocaine smuggling between Mexico and the US, where he could face a life sentence. and after a deliberation that lasted several days and a trial that lasted one month, a jury found 12 in a Brooklyn court convicted former Secretary of Public Safety under Mexican President Felipe Calderon (2006-2012) guilty of five counts, including receiving millions of dollars for protection of the Sinaloa cartel and involvement in the trafficking of at least 53 tons of cocaine from Mexico to the United States between 2001 and 2012. Garcia Luna is now a “convicted felon,” Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Brion Pace said.
García Luna is the highest-ranking Mexican official facing a US court in New York in a war against drug gangs in Central and South America who are using the complicity of local ministers to flood the North American market.
