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context: Title kinda says it all. And some wonder why the cartels are so powerful.  They're allowed to be by corrupt officials >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 84%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  MEXICO CITY - The man who was once Mexico's top security official and in charge of fighting the drug cartels was scheduled to go on trial Tuesday on charges he accepted millions of dollars in bribes in exchange for helping the powerful Sinaloa Cartel move drugs and its members avoid capture.
  Genaro García Luna was best known as the mumbling, tough-looking former security secretary under ex-President Felipe Calderón, who spearheaded the bloody war on cartels between 2006 and 2012.
  "For decades, Mexico's political elite, of all parties, has sought by any means to have security ministers, generals, police commanders, interior secretaries and high-ranking officials tried and imprisoned in Mexico. All that to avoid them giving information on the ties between the drug cartels and politicians," said Mexican security analyst David Saucedo.
  
  
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