Genaro García Luna
Genaro García Luna (born July 10, 1968) is a former Mexican government official, engineer, and convicted drug trafficker. He served as Secretary of Public Security in the federal cabinet of Felipe Calderón. He was later found to have used his high-ranking role to favor the Sinaloa Cartel to engage in drug-trafficking activities during the Mexican drug war.
Genaro García Luna | |
|---|---|
Luna in 2012 | |
| Secretary of Public Security of Mexico | |
| In office 1 December 2006 – 30 November 2012 | |
| President | Felipe Calderón |
| Preceded by | Eduardo Medina-Mora |
| Succeeded by | Manuel Mondragón y Kalb |
| Director of the Federal Investigative Agency | |
| In office 1 November 2001 – 30 November 2006 | |
| President | Vicente Fox |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Ardelio Vargas Fosado |
| Personal details | |
| Born | July 10, 1968 Mexico City, Mexico |
| Spouse |
Linda Cristina Pereyra
(m. 2008) |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (BS) |
| Allegiance | Sinaloa Cartel |
| Criminal charge | Drug trafficking, organized crime, false statements |
| Details | |
| Country | Mexico United States |
Date apprehended | 10 December 2019 |
Since his term working for the Mexican government, García Luna has worked as a consultant and businessman evaluating the social, political and financial economics of Mexico and Latin America. He is a partner in the company GLAC, which provides an index to evaluate risk and security conditions. The GLAC index is published in El Heraldo de México and El Financiero. It is used by the business community to evaluate the risk and security conditions for different states and cities in Mexico.
García Luna was included in a list of the "10 most corrupt Mexicans" published by Forbes in 2013. He broke a self-imposed silence in a letter to Steve Forbes that his inclusion in the list was based on lies and that it lacked journalistic integrity.
He is the author of Contra el crimen: ¿Por qué 1,661 corporaciones de policía no bastan? Pasado, Presente y Futuro de la Policía en México (2006) [Against Crime: Why 1,661 police forces are not enough. Past, Present and Future of Police in Mexico], where he first laid out the basic concepts of the New Police Model for Mexico, placing the emphasis on the importance of intelligence tasks, and “El Nuevo Modelo de Seguridad para México” (2011), which indicates what are the considerations and the state vision to confront a national priority.
In the 2018 trial of the drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera, El Chapo's partner Ismael Zambada García’s brother, Jesus Zambada García, testified to bribing García Luna with suitcases stuffed with $3 million in cash on two occasions.
On December 9, 2019, García Luna was arrested in Dallas on charges of taking millions in bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel.
On February 21, 2023, García Luna was declared guilty of all five counts by a federal jury in Brooklyn, New York, making the once-highest ranking law enforcement official in Mexico now a convicted felon.