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New York (AFP) – A once-powerful Mexican government minister who oversaw his country’s war on drug trafficking goes on trial in New York on Tuesday, himself charged with facilitating the smuggling of narcotics. Genaro Garcia Luna is accused of taking huge bribes to allow the notorious Sinaloa cartel to smuggle cocaine when he was public security minister during Felipe Calderon’s 2006-2012 presidency. The 54-year-old is the highest-ranking Mexican official to be charged in New York federal prosecutors’ extensive pursuit of alleged drug traffickers from Central and South America and their minist…