Describing meetings at a car wash and a smuggler s country house, a onetime drug trafficker testified Monday that he paid a former cabinet-level Mexican security official millions of dollars for help that included U.S. government information about a huge cocaine shipment in Mexico.
NEW YORK (AP) Describing meetings at a car wash and a smuggler's country house, a onetime drug trafficker testified Monday that he paid a former cabinet-level Mexican security official millions of dollars for help that included U.S.
In an attempt to deflect from their own woeful mismanagement, Mexican politicians often try to blame the country’s violent crime problem on Americans’ Second Amendment rights. However, recent news regarding at least one drug cartel manufacturing their own firearms and public corruption show that Mexico’s problems go far deeper than the rights enjoyed by their wealthy neighbors to the north.
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A onetime drug trafficker has testified that he paid a former top Mexican security official millions of dollars for help that included U.S. government information about a huge cocaine shipment in Mexico. Óscar Nava Valencia, known as “El Lobo,” or “The Wolf,” testified Monday at the U.S. federal drug trafficking trial of former Mexican security secretary Genaro García Luna. Nava Valencia said the payments were also intended to assure protection when a schism in the notorious Sinaloa cartel was heading toward a drug-world war. Defense lawyers haven’t yet had their chance to question Nava Valencia. They have argued that the case rests on lies from self-interested criminals.