Cartel operators, ex-police and a former government official have testified against Genaro García Luna with allegations of cash drops and kidnappings
Even the Mexican press has been implicated: on Monday, a former official in the state of CoahuilaIn a subsequent editorial, the newspaper
“There’s a lack of a direct smoking gun,” said Nathan Jones, an associate professor of security studies at Sam Houston State University. “It’s the descriptions of him being in the room with other people, but it’s not necessarily a wiretap or a signal intelligence or something along those lines.”Gustavo Mohar, former general secretary of Mexico’s top intelligence agency
“Either the Americans have some more solid piece of evidence, or the case could be really fragile,” said Gustavo Mohar, who under Calderón was general secretary of Mexico’s top intelligence agency, Cisen. “What I fear is that a jury like that must have very little information about the complexities of the fight against drugs, of corruption.”
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