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Mexico's Ex-security Chief Sentenced To Over 38 Years In US Prison

Genaro Garcia Luna held high-ranking security positions in Mexico from 2001 until 2012 (Credit: AFP)

Mexico's former top security official Genaro Garcia Luna was sentenced to more than 38 years in a US prison on Wednesday for aiding the very drug cartels he was tasked with dismantling.

Garcia Luna, 56, was convicted at a high-profile trial in New York last year of taking millions of dollars in bribes to allow the Sinaloa Cartel to smuggle tons of cocaine.

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