A 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. Under tight security, an ...

Roberto Sandoval, left, a former governor of the Mexican state of Nayarit, appointed Edgar Veytia, right, to top law enforcement slots. The two are shown during a 2014 trip to the city of Santiago ...

The trial of former Mexican Secretary of Public Security Genaro García Luna is underway, as the ex-top cop faces charges related to alleged drug trafficking. Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn are ...

A key prosecution witness testified Monday that he delivered millions of dollars in payoffs destined for former Mexican public safety chief Genaro García Luna but that the two didn't directly discuss ...

In a Brooklyn federal court, prosecutors are wrapping up their case this week against a former Mexican government official. Genaro Garcia Luna, who once led Mexico's drug-fighting effort, is charged ...

Jurors at the trial of Genaro García Luna have heard about murders, kidnappings, drug shipments and accusations of bribes paid by the Sinaloa drug cartel. By Alan Feuer and Nate Schweber The trial of ...

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president said Wednesday he hopes that the former Mexican security chief convicted this week in the U.S. of bribe-taking will cooperate with prosecutors there and perhaps ...

The verdict comes with a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years’ imprisonment. Genaro Garcia Luna, secretary of public security in Mexico from 2006 to 2012, was found guilty Tuesday by a federal jury ...

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. García Luna, ...

Guilty or innocent, the drug-corruption trial in New York of high-ranking former Mexican government official, Genaro Garcia Luna, shows the limits of the U.S. to win its decades-long "war on drugs." ...

Edgar Veytia’s transgressions came while he was the top cop in Nayarit, a small Pacific Coast state that evolved from a sleepy backwater to one of Mexico’s most violent cartel battlegrounds. Veytia, ...