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Mexicos' Ex-Security Minister Convicted of Drug Trafficking by US
Mexicos' Ex-Security Minister Genaro Garc*a Luna Convicted of Drug Trafficking
The former face of Mexico's war on drugs has been convicted by a US jury of drug trafficking. Jury weighs fate of Mexico ex-minister in El Chapo bribes case
BBC 22 FEB
Genaro Garcia Luna, who moved to the US after leaving office, is the highest-ranking Mexican official ever to be tried in the US.
Genaro Garc*a Luna, once Mexico's security minister, was found guilty of taking millions of dollars from Mexico's biggest crime group, the Sinaloa drug cartel.
Garc*a Luna - who was arrested in the state of Texas in 2019 - had pleaded not guilty.
The 54-year-old could face life in prison.
At a minimum, Garc*a Luna will serve the mandatory minimum of 20 years, according to a statement from the Department of Justice.
The verdict came after a four-week trial and three days of jury deliberation in the US District Court in Brooklyn, New York.
Prosecutors said the former head of the Mexican equivalent of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation accepted millions of dollars stuffed in briefcases and delivered by members of Joaqu*n "El Chapo" Guzmán's Sinaloa drug cartel.
On Twitter, a spokesperson for current Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Jesús Ram*rez Cuevas, praised the decision and took aim at former Mexican President Felipe Calderón.
Garc*a Luna served under Mr Calderón, who oversaw a crackdown on drug cartels beginning in 2006.
"Justice has arrived for the former squire of Felipe Calderón," Mr Ramirez Cuevas wrote. "The crimes against our people will never be forgotten."
Ioan Grillo, a Mexico-based British author and expert on Mexico's criminal underworld, told BBC News the conviction has "big implications" for both the US and Mexico governments' fight against corruption and organised crime.
"This could encourage prosecutors to go after other cases," he said. "They took a certain risk by not having physical evidence and convicting him on testimony from drug traffickers."
He added Garc*a Luna's conviction could also help dissuade Mexican officials from being "openly corrupt".
"If you're a Mexican agent, you'll be thinking about how much you expose yourself to the Americans," he said.
The ex-minister - widely considered the architect of Mexico's war on drugs - was said to have shared information with the Sinaloa drug cartel about its rivals and warned the group about law enforcement operations.
Garc*a Luna denied the allegations.
The claims against Garc*a Luna's involvement with the Sinaloa cartel first came to light during a trial against Guzmán, who was sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years in 2019.
A former cartel member named Jesus "Rey" Zambada testified during Guzmán's trial that he had delivered millions of dollars in payments to Garc*a Luna.
The case against the former minister was built on the testimony of nine cooperating witnesses, mostly convicted cartel members, including Zambada.
Garc*a Luna declined to testify at the trial, but his wife, Linda Cristina Pereyra, took the stand and attempted to downplay their finances and lifestyle.
In her closing argument, US prosecutor Saritha Komatireddy said the Sinaloa cartel could not have built a "global cocaine empire" without Garc*a Luna's aid.
"They paid the defendant bribes for protection," she said. "And they got what they paid for."
Garc*a Luna's lawyers argued the witnesses were testifying against him to "save themselves" after committing "horrific crimes".
Alejandro Hope, a former Mexican intelligence official, said the conviction would come as no surprise to those closely following the trial in Mexico.
"It was certainly enough to convince the jury, although many others will be unconvinced," he told BBC News.
The conviction could "complicate some parts" of US-Mexico cooperation, he said.
"There won't be any sort of rupture or open dispute," he added. "But ... it will be known that the US has its eyes on Mexican officials. For some, that will make things difficult."
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El Chapos’ Mum Dies Aged 94 After Begging For Her Son to Be Released
El Chapos’ Mum Dies Aged 94 After Begging For Her Drug Lord Son to Be Released
Mar*a Consuelo Loera Pérez, mother of one of the most powerful drug lords on the planet Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, has died aged 94 at a hospital in Culiacan, Sinaloa
Daily Mail 12 DEC 2023
The mother of one of the most powerful drug lords in the world has died at the age of 94, after begging for her son's release from prison.
Mar*a Consuelo Loera Pérez, mother of infamous Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, passed away at a private hospital in Culiacan, Sinaloa. Local reports suggest shed died following complications after surgery on her gallbladder 20 days earlier.
The hospital is located in the same city which is home to the cartel her son led for about two decades before his arrest and extradition to the United States in 2017. Her son was convicted in 2019 of running an industrial-scale smuggling operation.
Despite his crimes, in a March 2020 letter, Loera wrote to Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and pushed for her son to be returned to Mexico to serve out his sentence. She also won the right to a visa to visit her son in the USA. The head of Mexico's state media agency, Jenaro Villamil, described her as "a simple woman from Sinaloa" who always denied her son was in charge of the most powerful drug cartel in Mexico.
President Obrador said of her passing: "Respect to the family. I was reading the lady was already (ill) ... any human being who loses their life deserves respect and also consideration for their family members, for all those who go through these ordeals. Nothing human is foreign to me and we must not hate and we must put into practice that philosophical, universal principle of love for our neighbour and only by being good can we be happy."
El Chapo, the former leader of the Sinaloa cartel, escorted by marines in 2014
El Chapo is imprisoned in a supermax facility in the US
El Chapo, 66, led the Sinaloa cartel for decades until his most recent capture in 2016 led to him being extradited to the US.
At his trial, prosecutors said evidence gathered since the late 1980s showed he and his murderous cartel made billions of dollars by smuggling tons of cocaine, heroin, meth and marijuana into the U.S.
He was jailed for life after being convicted of crimes including murder conspiracies and drug trafficking following a federal trial in New York in February 2019. He was also ordered to forfeit $12.6bn and is believed to be held in a supermax prison in Colorado known as “the Alcatraz of the Rockies”.
The US once placed a $5 million bounty on Guzman's head. Before being locked up in the US. Last year El Chapo claimed he is being mistreated in US prison after penning a seven-page letter bemoaning his treatment. The letter, written in English, said:
"Due to the treatment at ADMAX, now I suffer from headaches, memory loss, muscle cramps, stress and depression. The treatment I receive is cruel and unfair, and it is causing me to suffer from psychological and health problems."
AW DEE DUMS..He should go and suck on a stick of arsenic so he suffers a long painful death, after all the lives he took or destroyed, throughout the world
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Mexicos' Ex-Security Minister Convicted of Drug Trafficking by US
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