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GRAPHIC EXCLUSIVE: Terrorist Drug Cartel in Mexico Threatens Attack on Businesses Providing Services to Rivals

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A US court Wednesday sentenced Genaro Garcia Luna, former Mexico security chief who led that country's war on narcotics, to 38 years in prison for bribery.

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Commensurate with the severity of his crimes, New York District Judge Brian Cogan also imposed a $2M fine on García Luna who was in office from 2006 to 2012.

The former super-cop, who once reportedly led almost 40K men, was in 2023 convicted of five criminal charges, including conspiring to distribute cocaine globally.

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For over two decades, García Luna reportedly collaborated with the Sinaloa Cartel, whose leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán is also serving prison time now.

Los Angeles Times

Garcia Luna took millions of dollars in bribes to protect the cartel, but maintained his innocence Wednesday saying: “I have not committed these crimes.”

Judge Cogan said that García Luna, who was arrested in 2019, had led a double life and called his career as Mexico’s security chief “a smoke screen.”

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The attack occurred in Apaseo El Alto, where gunmen stormed the Lexus gentlemen's bar, killing eight people inside and two others outside, according to state police sources.

The assailants left behind two posterboards with messages, one of which contained threats from the Sombra cell of Cartel Santa Rosa de Lima (CSRDL) directed at Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) and a rival commander.

The violence in Guanajuato has been escalating as CSRDL attempts to maintain control over key drug distribution and fuel theft territories while CJNG seeks to expand its influence in the area.

Recent months have seen nearly 30 people killed in similar attacks on public places as the conflict between the two cartels intensifies, according to Infobae.

The situation has been further complicated by the arrest of Juan Rodolfo "El Rudy" Yepez Ortiz, a top boss of CSRDL and brother of the cartel's leader, who was apprehended in Baja California with over $60,000 in his vehicle.

The recent attacks and threats are a necessary evil in the fight against the expansion of CJNG, a notoriously violent cartel. CSRDL's actions, while extreme, are aimed at protecting their territory and the local communities from the potentially worse consequences of CJNG taking control. The arrest of El Rudy is a setback, but CSRDL will continue to defend its interests in Guanajuato.

Cartel Violence Escalates in Guanajuato, Mexico

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The sentencing of Genaro García Luna marks a watershed moment in Mexico's fight against corruption. As Mexico's former security chief and architect of the nation's drug war strategy, his conviction exposes the profound betrayal at the highest levels of Mexican law enforcement. The case validates long-held suspicions about state collusion with drug cartels, potentially forcing Mexico to reckon with its costly and controversial war on drugs.

Cartel Violence Escalates in Guanajuato, Mexico

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