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Mexico's former public security head is convicted in the U.S. of taking cartel bribes

Mexico's Secretary of Public Safety Genaro García Luna attends a news conference on the sidelines of an American Police Community meeting in Mexico City, Oct. 8, 2010. The former Mexican presidential cabinet member was convicted in the U.S. on Tuesday of taking massive bribes to protect the violent drug cartels he was tasked with combating. (Marco Ugarte/AP)

Mexico's former public security secretary, Genaro García Luna, has been found guilty of drug trafficking.

He is the highest-ranking Mexican official ever to be tried in the United States.

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