Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, a leader of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, is on trial in
New York. After twice making his way out of Mexican prisons, he was extradited
to the United States. This is what counts as a major victory in the never-
ending US war on drugs, which the US has in recent decades exported to Mexico.
Yet El Chapo's arrest, like that of so many others, has done nothing to stop
Mexican drug cartels from continuing to export massive quantities of cocaine
and heroin and other drugs. Neither has it caused cartels to pause the
murderous bloodbath that they have visited upon the Mexican people. The
Mexican state continues to be a corrupt one, and the domestic deployment of a
Mexican military deeply implicated in human rights violations is set to
continue. And there is still no justice for the disappeared students from
Ayotzinapa. Dan interviews legendary Mexican investigative journalist Anabel
Hernández.
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