Ex-Mexico security chief’s trial poised to lift lid on US and Mexico’s ‘war on drugs’

Genaro Garcia Luna, accused of accepting millions in bribes from cartels, in trial that could implicate officials on both sides of border

One of Mexico's most powerful former officials will stand trial in the US this week, charged with accepting million-dollar bribes from a violent cartel in a case with profound political implications that could expose the inner workings of the war on drugs" on both sides of the border.

Genaro Garcia Luna, a former head of Mexico's equivalent of the FBI who went on to lead the country's security ministry, was arrested in Texas in 2019, charged with conspiring to traffic cocaine and lying to the US government.