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Since Enrique Camarena Salazar, an agent of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, was kidnaped last month in Mexico and subsequently murdered, presumably by narcotics dealers, U.S. officials have suspected the complicity of corrupt Mexican police. Last week John Gavin, the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, announced that at least two of the four kidnapers who hustled Camarena into a car in Guadalajara a month before his body was found were, in fact, policemen of the Mexican state of Jalisco. They had been arrested by Mexican federal authorities and had confessed...
Gavin, who pushed his hosts hard to solve the killing, made a gesture toward soothing U.S.-Mexican tensions aroused by the Camarena case: he complimented the Mexicans for moving "so quickly." But he prodded them further. The other two kidnapers might also be police, he hinted, and noted they had not yet been caught. Also at large is Rafael "El Chapo" (Shorty) Caro Quintero, a drug dealer suspected of ordering Camarena's murder...
Skeptical U.S. officials believe the Mexican authorities received an anonymous letter, but think that the overzealous officers might have opened fire on the Bravo house without sufficient provocation. Needing to justify the carnage, the police could have planted the cocaine in the home and later placed the bodies of Camarena and Zavala near- by. If this were the case, the federal police must have known who had kidnaped, killed and buried...
...prime suspects in the Camarena-Zavala case are still two Mexican drug kingpins, Miguel Felix Gallardo and Rafael Caro Quintero. But the U.S. believes that Mexico's gangland "families" have been operating with wide- scale police protection. Officers who were supposedly tracking Caro Quintero in connection with the Camarena case claimed they simply failed to recognize the well-known crook when he boarded a private plane in Guadalajara two days after the agent's abduction. Caro Quintero flew to Caborca, a remote desert town where he may now be in hiding...
...city of Reynosa, Mexico, but the original drivers had escaped. In his press conference last week, Ambassador Gavin quoted Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, who called the drug crisis "a cancer" on both countries. Said Gavin: "We are in a war, and we cannot accept that Enrique Camarena died in vain...