An Unwinnable War
Latino USA
My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
This week Latino USA shares an episode of the USA v. GarcĂa Luna podcast, from Futuro Investigates and Lemonada Media.
Genaro GarcĂa Luna’s trial is over, but Maria and Peniley’s investigative work is not. In this episode, they learn that a U.S. senator has requested the DEA and the FBI information on GarcĂa Luna, including the names of the U.S. officials who vetted him. We listen to some of our series’ protagonists react to the guilty verdict, and Peniley digs into what’s next for GarcĂa Luna. Finally, our hosts reflect on why the war on drugs was always unwinnable, and they get into some chisme, going behind the scenes of this series.
To hear more of USA v. GarcĂa Luna, head to futuroinvestigates.org.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Latino USA listener, I'm Mariano Rosa. For several weeks, our very own Futuro Investigates |
| 0:15.0 | Unit has followed the trial of Henaro GarcĂa Luna, the highest ranking former government |
| 0:21.6 | official in Mexico ever to face trial in the US. What awaits GarcĂa Luna now though, |
| 0:29.4 | are a jury in New York recently found him guilty of collaborating with El Chapo's |
| 0:35.3 | truck cartel. What does the verdict say about the role of the US in this so-called war |
| 0:41.2 | on drugs? Well, here's the last episode of our investigative series USA versus GarcĂa |
| 0:47.8 | Luna. Dale con la botella. Okay, Maria is not here. Maria is in Texas, so having the |
| 0:55.9 | killer just myself, thank you so much. Sorry, Maria, not a killer for you. Tequila for |
| 1:03.8 | me. Anyway, dear listener, welcome back. I'm Maria Inohosa. And I am Penny Leiramides. |
| 1:11.1 | Well, there was this big huge news, you know, the guilty verdict. And finally, some US news |
| 1:19.0 | outlets have started to pay a little bit of attention to the importance of this issue. |
| 1:25.3 | So here's a little bit of what it sounds like as Penny Leir and I gave interviews to |
| 1:29.6 | the mainstream media. What was the practical effect of a top Mexican official taking bribes |
| 1:35.4 | from a cartel? How did that affect the United States, for example? Well, the United States |
| 1:40.0 | says it has the highest level of intelligence and says that the DEA is the most premier |
| 1:45.4 | law enforcement agency to fight this war on drugs. Penny Leir team's been getting up before |
| 1:51.4 | the sun rises to go to the court, layout the significance of this verdict. We have been |
| 1:57.8 | also calling our sources and figuring out what's next in this story. This is Lucia Diaz |
| 2:04.4 | or Lucia, she likes to be cold. Her son is one of thousands of people who have disappeared |
| 2:09.9 | in Mexico in the aftermath of the war on drugs. We interviewed Lucia for episode five of this |
| 2:15.5 | series and I call her back after the verdict. It's just so new to have some justice, something |
| 2:23.0 | that as victims, we never get in Mexico. And finally, it came and we all celebrated. |
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