Antonio Martínez Luna

Who is 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 YouTube and released to the media portrayed José Ramón Velázquez, a drug dealer working for the Joaquín Guzmán Loera 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 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 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.