Even President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has seemed stunned during testimony. “Imagine, why would one go to watch these Netflix series if reality exceeds them?” López Obrador said this month.
Former Mexican security official arrested in U.S., accused of taking millions in bribes from ‘El Chapo’
The prosecution in New York has drawn intense interest in Mexico, where its sometimes-sensational disclosures about links between drug cartels and officials have featured prominently in the news and and on social media. Mexican outlets have dispatched correspondents to New York to report on the proceedings.
For many Mexicans, the case has confirmed their worst suspicions about complicity between government officials and criminal gangs that run amok, profiting from the enormous illicit trade to the United States, along with other rackets. And, in a country where criminal trials are largely secret affairs based on written declarations, the sometimes explosive testimony from a U.S. courtroom has proved riveting.
Even Mexico’s president has seem stunned at the extent of collaboration exposed during testimony between the Mexican state and multibillion-dollar drug cartels. For the Mexican president, the García Luna trial represents much more than the reckoning of yet another corrupt Mexican official. The president has characterized the case as emblematic of the moral depravity of his predecessors, especially his loathed political adversary, Calderón.
The president regularly asserts that his leadership has largely eliminated the institutional graft that has long plagued Mexico. For him, the corruption being bared in a New York courtroom is a reminder of a dark era, something far removed from the contemporary reality of his administration — an assertion that many in Mexico have questioned.
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