Shortly before his sentencing on drug trafficking charges, scheduled for October 9 in a New York court and which could include life imprisonment, Genaro García Luna, former Secretary of Security during the Felipe Calderón administration (2006-2012), reiterated his innocence of the crimes of which he is accused and said that he refused to negotiate a reduction of his sentence to just “six months” in prison in exchange for “being incriminated with crimes related to drug trafficking,” in a handwritten letter in Spanish and delivered by his defense to some American media outlets.
García Luna also said that he was offered “economic benefits” to become a witness “not to indict criminals-drug traffickers,” but rather “the perspective was to indict people and institutions that in the short term would weaken the development, public peace and institutional life of the country. Obviously I did not accept and the reaction was explosive.”
Without presenting evidence, which he says he cannot provide because it is in the US courts, he also accused the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of being involved with the co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel, Ismael The May Zambada, who is being tried in the same New York courts, after being arrested in Texas.
“It is public knowledge and is in the official records of Mexico and the United States, the contacts, videos, audios, photographs, communication records and management between the current president of Mexico Andrés López Obrador and his operators with drug trafficking leaders and their families,” he stated in the letter, which bears his signature and the date of the 13th of this past month.
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– 2024-09-22 12:33:16
