A New York grand jury indicted two former chiefs of the Mexican federal police Thursday.
One of the members supervised the anti-narcotics units examined by the US Drug Control Administration linked to two Mexican bloodbaths that left dozens of dead or missing, ProPublica reports.
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Ramón Pequeño García and Luis Cárdenas Palomino, had been held by national security officials and US diplomats, the publication noted. But instead of joining the fight against the drug cartels, the two collaborated with the gangs and accepted bribes, evidence showed.
The accusations emerge as part of an investigation into corruption within the Mexican government following the conviction of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. In December, prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York arrested Genaro García Luna, a former chief of Mexico’s federal police.
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Andrew Espee of the Institute for Migration Policy told ProPublica when he learned of the allegations: “That is incredible,” adding that “they would force us to rethink everything we thought we knew” about the recent anti-drug efforts. in Mexico.
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