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  Days before President Joe Biden took office, Mexico’s national prosecutor exonerated former Mexican Defense Secretary Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, who had been suddenly arrested in Los Angeles on drug trafficking charges last October and just as suddenly released to Mexican custody by the Trump administration one month later.
  Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador not only supported the decision; he accused the US Drug Enforcement Administration of fabricating the case against the general, who had been charged with participating in a drug trafficking and money laundering scheme. The summary of the DEA investigation, which was released by López Obrador, reveals that Cienfuegos was referred to as “Padrino” or “Godfather” in multiple communications with a Mexican drug cartel.
  But when Biden met López Obrador this week for the first time as president, there was no indication that they specifically discussed the Cienfuegos case or US claims of Mexican military involvement in drug trafficking or even human rights violations, including the disappearance of 43 student activists.