Mexico outsources justice in its most high-profile cases to the United States

The Federal Prosecutor's Office for the Eastern District of New York has become an outsourcing agency for the Mexican government, since at least in the last five years, drug traffickers and high-profile criminals, who were not prosecuted for their crimes in Mexico, have been brought to trial and sentenced in the United States.

The trial of former Secretary of Public Security, Genaro García Luna, underway in New York, is not the only case in which the prosecutors —who have been known for being implacable in their sentences— have brought before a federal judge in . . .