México City.- Not only did Felipe Calderon know it, but also his predecessor in the presidency, Vicente Fox; the Attorney General in the Fox administration, Rafael Macedo de la Concha, and his successor Daniel Cabeza de Vaca; the late head of SIEDO, José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, and the Secretary of Defense, Guillermo Galvan, were aware that Genaro Garcia Luna was protecting the Sinaloa Cartel. Proceso reported this in edition 2250 in December 2019, when the former Secretary of Public Security was arrested in the United States and brought to trial, which he was found guilty of today.

Suspicions existed since the time of Vicente Fox, but during the administration of Felipe Calderon, there was certainty inside and outside the government that Genaro Garcia Luna, the most powerful member of the cabinet, was an accomplice of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the criminal boss who, under the protection of political power, escaped from prison and expanded his criminal empire during the two administrations of the National Action Party (PAN).

The accusations and allegations against García Luna for his ties to organized crime were known by the heads of the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) under Fox, Rafael Macedo de la Concha and Daniel Cabeza de Vaca, as well as Eduardo Medina Mora, Calderón’s attorney general, the deputy attorney general Juan de Dios Castro, and his personal secretary, César Nava, among many others.

Despite the evidence, much of it public, Calderón always protected García Luna and stated that his honesty was beyond question, as he expressed on November 23, 2008, in Lima, Peru. This defense persisted throughout his administration and was only modified when it became known of the arrest of the police chief on Tuesday, December 10, in the United States.