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US: trial opens for the architect of 'Mexico's war on drugs' in New York

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The trial of Genaro Garcia Luna, once-powerful Mexican government minister who oversaw his country's war on drug trafficking and now charged with facilitating the smuggling of narcotics, opens in New York. The 54-year-old is the highest-ranking Mexican official to be charged in New York federal prosecutors' extensive pursuit of alleged drug traffickers from Central and South America and their ministerial accomplices. IMAGES

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