Mexico City

A cartel’s generals: In a case that underscores drug gangs’ penetration of Mexico’s police and military, Mexican authorities have charged three generals and a colonel with providing protection to a cartel. One of the generals, Tomás Angeles, now retired, was an assistant defense secretary from 2006 to 2008. Another, Ricardo Escorcia, was the head of a military base near Mexico City. All four officers were charged with aiding the Beltrán-Leyva cartel, which trafficked cocaine, heroin, and marijuana until the 2009 death of its leader. The highest-ranking army official ever convicted in Mexico was Gen. Jesús Gutiérrez Rebollo, who was head of Mexico’s anti-drug agency when he was arrested in 1997.

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