translated from Spanish: “The Graduate” an X-ray of Garcia Luna’s corruption and media shows

Morelia, Michoacán.- The name Genaro García Luna has resonated in national and international media during recent weeks for the legal process it faces in the United States, for its links to criminal networks in both Mexico and the American Union, while he was the secretary of security during the period of President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa.
Corruption networks, espionage, extortion and orchestrating false arrests and accusations are part of the things that have come to light from the also dubbed “The Graduate” and that could cause more ex-officials, including Felipe Calderón to be investigated for possible links to organized crime from 2006 to 2012, which left more than 100,000 people dead, according to official figures from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System.
In this context, journalist J. Jesús Lemus Barajas, author of books such as “Los Malditos”, “Land without God” and “The Water or Life” now releases under the publisher Harper Collins his book “El licenciado”, where he openly addresses part of García Luna’s criminal history.
All this through documents and investigations that he carried out for years to be able to present an X-ray of how this former official claimed to fight organized crime, but on the other hand he was colluded with some posters from the north of the country.
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An interesting point that Lemus addresses during the book and how he used the media to expose cases that to this day remain in the public eye, either because of strong suspicions that they were orchestrated and on the other hand because innocent people lost their freedom and were exposed to public lynching.
These are the cases of the arrest of the French Florence Cassez, which was broadcast live during the morning news that led Carlos Loret de Mola, “El Michoacanazo”, where municipal presidents and officials of the government of the state of Michoacán of the period of Leonel Godoy Rangel.
The “Operation Cleanup” and even the assembly of the alleged death of a drug trafficking kingpin are other events that García Luna set out to spread through the media at a time when there was strong criticism of the federal government’s strategy for attacking drug trafficking.
Reading “El Licenciado” will bring to reader mixed feelings, first to know how Genaro García Luna was climbing in power thanks to corruption and influence-trafficking and then as he practically used the media to simulate arrests and acts that are currently under investigation because they have been montages.
In conclusion, “The Graduate” is a book worth reading, especially if anyone wants to know one of the many clearings that Felipe Calderón Hinojosa’s federal administration had and the origin of a war that seems to have no end yet.

Original source in Spanish

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