Joaquin El Chapo Usman is facing 17 counts, including drug trafficking, kidnapping and murder. Why is he being tried in Brooklyn? That was one of several jurisdictions in the United States that had an indictment for him. And because the US government knows this is a high profile trial and wants a lot of eyes to be on it, so to maximize the press coverage.
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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