Genaro García Luna, who oversaw the creation of Mexico’s federal police, was arrested in Texas on Monday.

He helped oversee the militarized crackdown on organized crime which was launched in 2006 by the then president, Felipe Calderón, and has continued with slight modifications ever since.

But according to the indictment against him
unsealed on Tuesday, García Luna “received millions of dollars in bribes from the Sinaloa cartel in exchange for providing protection for its drug trafficking activities”.

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