Kenano Garcia Luna was the former Secretary of Public Security of Mexico. He is accused here in New York of being sort of the right hand of Joaquin El Chapo Usman, the leader of the Sinolo Acacal child within the Mexican government. "It's one character that summarizes a lot of things that have been in the public interest for so many years," he says.
The US and Mexican governments trusted Genaro Garcia Luna to crack down on the drug trade. Now he’s on trial for conspiring with El Chapo’s Sinaloa cartel. Peniley Ramírez, co-host of the new podcast USA v. Garcia Luna, explains.
This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and edited by Matt Collette and Sean Rameswaram, who also hosted.
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