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Ex-Mexico drug czar gets 38 years in U.S. prison for taking cartel bribes
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Mexico’s ex-public security chief sentenced to 38-plus years in US for taking cartel bribes
NEW YORK (AP) — The man once heralded as the architect of Mexico’s war on drug cartels was sentenced to more than 38 years in a U.S. prison on Wednesday for taking massive bribes to aid drug ...2 hours ago -
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Mexico’s Ex-Security Chief Sentenced to 38 Years for Cartel Bribery
The stiff penalty was the potentially final step in the stunning downfall of the former official, Genaro García Luna, who has gone from the heights of power to imprisonment.2 hours ago -
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Mexican official who led war on drugs jailed for 38 years for accepting bribes
Genaro Garcia Luna was accused of taking millions of dollars from the Sinaloa cartel for shielding members. Genaro Garcia Luna, the official who for several years led Mexico’s fight against the ...1 hour ago -
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Zeta drug lord continued to control cartel from inside a Mexican prison, says US indictment
A U.S. indictment unsealed in the District of Columbia claims that the leader of one of Mexico's most violent gangs continued to control an offshoot group, the Northeast Cartel, from inside a ...2 hours ago -
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An ex-politician faces at least 20 years in prison in killing of Las Vegas reporter
A former Las Vegas-area Democratic elected official was sentenced Wednesday to serve at least 28 years in Nevada state prison for killing an investigative journalist who wrote articles critical of ...7 hours ago -
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Prison gangs: ‘I've chopped people, attacked staff, hidden drugs’
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In the heartland of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, the old ways have changed and violence rages
Cellphone chats have become death sentences in the continuing, bloody factional war inside the Sinaloa drug cartel20 hours ago -
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A Saudi cartoonist has been sentenced to 23 years in prison, activists say
A Saudi cartoonist who once drew for a Qatari newspaper as a yearslong diplomatic crisis engulfed Doha has been sentenced to 23 years in prisonYesterday
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