Genaro Garcia Luna was the architect of Mexico's war on drugs. Now he's on trial for allegedly colluding with the drug cartels
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The trial of Genaro Garcia Luna has begun in a federal courthouse in New York. Garcia Luna was once the head of Mexico's Federal Investigative Agency, the equivalent of the American FBI. Now, he faces charges of colluding with Mexican drug cartels. Mexican-American journalist José Olivares tells us what he's alleged to have done and what that says about the reach of the cartels into the upper echelons of the Mexican government.