Antonio Martínez Luna

Antonio Martínez Luna is the Attorney General of the Mexican state of Baja California in the administration of governor Eugenio Elorduy Walther of the National Action Party.

In May 2007 a video uploaded to You Tube and released to the media portrayed José Ramón Velázquez, a drug dealer working for the Joaquín Guzmán Loera (a.k.a. "El Chapo") criminal gang, accusing the governor and Martínez Luna of protecting drug dealers. Velázquez explains in the video that he had rorked for "El Mayel" and through his lawyer he met "El Chapo" at the maximum-security prison of Almoloya.

In the video Velázquez also describes how Humberto Valdez (a.k.a. "El Pato") one of the attorney general's assistants was trying to put together a group of expelled ministerial agents like Velázquez then re-instate them to fight off the Tijuana Cartel and everybody who was competing with "El Chapo". According to Velázquez, Martínez Luna (a.k.a. "El Blindado", English for "Shielded" or "bullet-proof") supported the creation of this cell in both Mexicali and Tijuana. Velázquez also describes how two agents paid 200,000 US dollars each to not be executed for stealing drugs and the money went from "El Pato" to Martínez Luna.

The video was filmed by a group of members of a gang competing with "El Chapo"'s gang. A few days after the video was filmed Velázquez was found dead in Mexicali.

ource

* [http://www.cronica.com.mx/nota.php?id_nota=299290 Excerpts from the interview and a screenshot of the video] at Crónica de Baja California newspaper website

ee also

* Antonio Carmona Añorve — Attorney General for Mexicali during the government of Governor Elorduy convicted for similar crimes