Mexico’s ex-security czar gets 38 years for cartel bribes. Is he the first of many? Former Mexican Secretary of Public Safety Genaro García Luna attends a ceremony in Bogota, Colombia, in 2011.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has dismissed allegations from his country's jailed ex-security chief that he has links to drug cartels.

Garcia Luna worked closely with U.S. counter-narcotics and intelligence agencies as part of former President Felipe Calderon's crackdown on cartels.

Genaro Garcia Luna, public security minister under Felipe Calderon's presidency from 2006 to 2012, was found guilty on all five counts following a high-profile trial in New York.

On their third day of deliberations, the jurors at a U.S. federal court in NY found García Luna guilty of colluding with the Sinaloa Cartel.

The accusation, which was quickly denied, was made by a former Mexican official at the trial in Brooklyn of Mexico’s former top security chief.

Garcia Luna is one of the highest-ranking Mexican officials to be accused of aiding drug trafficking groups. He ran public security under former President Felipe Calderon, who sent in Mexico's ...

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) has denied former President Felipe Calderon’s bid to register his Free Mexico movement as a new political party, saying ...

Former Mexico president Felipe Calderon has joined protests against reported plans to move Liga MX club Monarcas Morelia to Mazatlan.