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Rage Over Mexico's Insults on Big Time Drug Case

Biden's Justice Department may not play the patsy like Bill Barr, who released Mexico's cartel-protecting former defense minister

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Elaine Shannon
Jan 17, 2021
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“We don’t need no stinking evidence.”

The iconic insults hurled at Humphrey Bogart by Mexican bandidos inThe Treasure of the Sierra Madre weren’t—word for word—in the Mexican government’s statement last week exonerating former Mexican defense minister Salvador Cienfuegos of drug trafficking and money laundering charges.

But they were close enough. Letting…

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