US drops charges against former Mexican general

A month after Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, Mexico’s former defense minister, was arrested for alleged drug trafficking and corruption, a U-S district court judge allowed prosecutors to drop all charges. Host Marco Werman speaks with The World’s Jorge Valencia in Mexico City.

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