Word: camarena
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...agents have been hamstrung in their efforts to catch smuggling kingpins south of the border because many Mexican government officials are on the traffickers' payroll. When smugglers tortured and murdered DEA agent Enrique Camarena Salazar near Guadalajara last March, Mexican investigators seemed to be looking the other way. But honest members of Mexico's government are just as upset as Americans about the violence bred by smuggling. In a massacre last November, an army of 50 marijuana traffickers equipped with automatic weapons shot and killed 17 Mexican police officers and seven guides...
...believed, members of various Mexican police units. The most important catch, however, was Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, 60, known as El Padrino, or the Godfather. He is reputed to be Mexico's leading drug trafficker and a prime suspect in the kidnap-murder of U.S. Narcotics Agent Enrique Camarena Salazar...
...which has complained strongly about Mexico's apparently laggard efforts to catch the murderers, was quick with praise. The arrest came only five days after the capture in San Jose, Costa Rica, of another Mexican drug kingpin, Rafael Caro Quintero, 29, who had fled shortly after the murder of Camarena and his Mexican pilot Alfredo Zavala Avelar. Caro Quintero was deported to Mexico and last week was charged in a Mexico City court with drug trafficking, arms smuggling and criminal association. Authorities have not yet determined whether he is to be charged with murder...
...Camarena, an agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration, was helping block the narcotics pipeline from Mexico into the U.S. when he and his pilot disappeared on Feb. 7. Last month their battered bodies were found in plastic bags on a ranch outside Guadalajara...
According to Mexican officials, Fonseca told them last week that he had seen Camarena and Caro Quintero at the ranch the day after the kidnapings. Fonseca said that he and Caro Quintero were angry with the agent over a police and army raid on a plantation in Chihuahua, owned by the two drug dealers, in which 8,000 tons of marijuana were burned. Fonseca added that the intention had been to question Camarena and offer him a bribe. He also claimed that he was too drunk to talk to Camarena until the next day, when Caro Quintero allegedly told...