Word: camarena
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...powerful statement, given the maligned reputations of previous Mexican administrations, including that of former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, whose Education Minister and one of whose Attorneys General were implicated, but never charged, in the scandal surrounding the kidnapping, torture and murder of U.S. DEA special agent Kiki Camarena in 1985. Other Mexican government officials accused of complicity with drug organizations include a former special prosecutor against drugs, two former police commanders, a former Interior Minister, a former Defense Minister, the son of the former Governor of the state of Jalisco and the brother-in-law of former President Luis...
Much was made of the dismissal by a Los Angeles federal judge of charges against Dr. Humberto Alvarez Machain in the 1985 torture-murder of D.E.A. agent Enrique Camarena. But the prosecution did not come away completely empty-handed. Alvarez's co-defendant, Ruben Zuno Arce, a Mexican businessman and brother-in-law of former Mexican President Luis Echeverria, was convicted in the same court. According to the jury, Zuno helped plan Camarena's kidnapping and was present while he was tortured. He could receive life...
...strained U.S.-Mexican relations, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that he could be tried in Los Angeles. Now, though, he has been freed by District Judge Edward Rafeedie, who ruled that there was no direct evidence that Alvarez participated in the 1985 murder of Drug Enforcement Administration operative Enrique Camarena. Alvarez admitted being in the house where Camarena was tortured and killed, but a Mexican policeman reported to the American FBI that another physician had also been there. Mexican President Salinas hailed Alvarez's release as a "correction of an insult...
...years ago was dragged from his Guadalajara office by Mexican bounty hunters, flown to El Paso and handed over to agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Alvarez-Machain still awaits trial in Los Angeles on federal charges of conspiring to torture and kill dea agent Enrique Camarena, kidnapped and murdered in Guadalajara in 1985. The doctor allegedly injected Camarena with lidocaine, which kept his heart going to prolong his torture and interrogation by Mexican officials and drug kingpins...
Shannon is the author of Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen, and the | War America Can't Win. The book was turned into last year's Emmy-winning mini- series Drug Wars: The Camarena Story. She began working on our cover piece last fall by interviewing U.S. drug-trafficking experts. In March she went to Colombia to describe the world of the cartel chiefs...