Garcia Luna is accused of helping the Cinaloa cartel since 2001. In 2012, 11 years after that, he received this fancy award from the head of the CIA. "I would love to see some accountability regarding not just this guy, but who others? What other people are out there?" she asks.
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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