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What Genaro García Luna's trial reveals about the war on drugs
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Clandestine meetings at a car wash, promises of protection from the military, millions of dollars stuffed into suitcases... The scenes witnesses are describing at the ongoing corruption trial of Genaro García Luna, Mexico's former top security official, sound like they could be lifted straight out of a Narcos plotline. But as investigative journalist Tim Golden tells David Common, the trial is pulling back the curtain on decades of corruption, extortion and political interference from both Mexican and American officials that fueled the rise of Mexico's most infamous drug cartels – and by extension – the ongoing overdose crisis.