Penny Ramirez: Garcia Luna is on trial in New York City. She says he's accused of conspiring with a car cell to bring drugs and lying to the DHS. The jury will remain anonymous, so we don't know how many people are on it; they're partially sequestered. "This is not just an American politician that liked Donna Sommer and James Bond," she 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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