Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has dismissed allegations from his country's jailed ex-security chief that he has links to drug cartels.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is demanding that former secretary of public security Genaro García Luna, who was convicted on drug trafficking charges in the United States last year, present evidence to support his accusations that the president has links to drug trafficking.

Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, is currently awaiting trial at Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), the same institution that currently holds Genaro Garcia Luna, the Ex-Mexico Security Chief who was convicted for secretly providing years of protection to former drug lord El Chapo and the Sinaloa cartel itself.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has called on former Security Chief Genaro García Luna, convicted of drug trafficking in the U.S., to present evidence supporting his accusations linking López Obrador to drug traffickers.