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Ex-Mexican defense secretary is denied bail on drug charges

by Elliot Spagat
| October 20, 2020 3:03 PM

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A judge denied bail to Mexico's former defense secretary on Tuesday on charges of helping a Mexican cartel smuggle drugs to the United States in exchange for bribes, casting aside an argument that the retired general wouldn't flee because he was determined to exonerate himself.

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