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Mexico’s ex-security czar faces life sentence for cartel bribes. Is he the first of many?
In the history of narco-corruption in Mexico, no higher-ranking official than Genaro García Luna has ever faced justice in the United States.He’s nowhere near as infamous as Joaquín “El...
At the epicenter of the Mexican drug trade, a deadly power struggle shuts down a city
CULIACÁN, Mexico — In this city built from the spoils of Mexico’s richest drug-trafficking empire, they’re calling it the “narco-pandemia’’ — not a virus but a deadly reckoning inside the...
Mexican president responds to allegations from jailed ex-security chief: ‘Show the proof’
MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has dismissed allegations from his country’s disgraced ex-security chief — jailed in the United States and facing a possible life sentence...
Trial of reputed Mexican cartel leader’s son offers cautionary tale for ‘narco juniors’
The reputed Mexican drug lord known as El Mencho has spent more than a decade evading efforts by U.S. and Mexican officials to bring him to justice. His son,...
Kidnapping, capture, cover-up? Cremated body baffles Mexican officials in ‘El Mayo’ arrest
MEXICO CITY — The tale of kidnapping, secret deals and betrayal that saw two of Mexico’s most wanted drug lords taken into U.S. custody last month has taken another twist.Now,...
