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Trial in New York has Mexico riveted as jury contemplates fate of former Mexican security chief

MEXICO CITY — He has talked about the case for months, likening it to a television crime drama and saying its revelations dramatize the deep corruption of his predecessors. But Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says he isn't going to forecast the outcome of the U.S. trial against this country's former top security official. "What do I expect from the jury? We are going to wait," ...
Genaro Garcia Luna, formerly Mexico's secretary of public safety, speaks during the inauguration of the Federal Police's scientific division in 2012 in Mexico City.

MEXICO CITY — He has talked about the case for months, likening it to a television crime drama and saying its revelations dramatize the deep corruption of his predecessors.

But Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says he isn't going to forecast the outcome of the U.S. trial against this country's former top security official.

"What do I expect from the jury? We are going to wait," López Obrador told reporters on Thursday. "I don't want to make any prediction. But I am not going to let this be. We are not going to shut up."

On Friday, the Mexican president called on Washington to

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