A trial in New York exposes US-Mexican counter-narcotics tensions
A former Mexican security minister is accused of abetting a drugs cartel
Even a Mexican telenovela would struggle to come up with a better second season. In 2019 a court in New York sentenced to life in prison Joaquín Guzmán (better known as “El Chapo”), a leading drug trafficker who headed the Sinaloa gang. This week in the same room sat Genaro García Luna, who was the federal security minister during President Felipe Calderón’s “war on drugs” between 2006 and 2012 and a lauded ally of the United States. He was arrested in Texas in 2019, and the following year pled not guilty to five charges, including one of conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “El Chapo: the sequel”
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