{"id":21770,"date":"2010-09-12T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/womans_links_to_mexican_drug_cartel_a_saga_of_corruption_on_u-s-_side_of_bo\/"},"modified":"2010-09-12T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T15:00:06","slug":"womans_links_to_mexican_drug_cartel_a_saga_of_corruption_on_u-s-_side_of_bo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21770","title":{"rendered":"(Wash. Post) Woman&#39;s links to Mexican drug cartel a saga of corruption on U.S. side of border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She lived a double life. At the border crossing, she was Agent Garnica, a veteran law enforcement officer. In the shadows, she was &#8220;La Estrella,&#8221; the star, a brassy looker who helped drug cartels make a mockery of the U.S. border.<\/p>\n<p>Martha Garnica devised secret codes, passed stacks of cash through car windows and sketched out a map for smugglers to safely haul drugs and undocumented workers across the border. For that she was richly rewarded; she lived in a spacious house with a built-in pool, owned two Hummers and vacationed in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>For years, until an intricate sting operation brought her down in late 2009, Garnica embodied the seldom-discussed role of the United States in the trafficking trade&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/09\/11\/AR2010091105687.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She lived a double life. At the border crossing, she was Agent Garnica, a veteran law enforcement officer. In the shadows, she was &#8220;La Estrella,&#8221; the star, a brassy looker who helped drug cartels make a mockery of the U.S.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21770\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,209,99,114,197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-drugsdrug-addiction","category-law-legal-issues","category-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}