LOS ANGELES: Mexico’s former defense secretary helped a cartel smuggle thousands of kilograms of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana into the United States in exchange for bribes, according to court documents unsealed on Friday (Saturday in Manila).

COCAINE DUO In this Sept 16, 2016 file photo, Mexico’s then Defense Minister Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda (left) joins former president Enrique Nieto Peña watch a military parade in Mexico City. Court records said Cienfuegos helped a cartel smuggle thousands of kilograms of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana into the United States
in exchange for bribes. AP PHOTO

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