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...Last month the former head of the powerful Federal Security Directorate was arrested in Mexico as a suspect in the 1984 assassination of journalist Manuel Buendia. Now a U.S. grand jury is investigating allegations that Zorrilla was also involved in the death of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique Camarena Salazar in 1985. According to DEA informants, Zorrilla knew in advance of Camarena's kidnaping. One source added that Camarena's interrogator was in direct contact with Zorrilla. If proved, the allegations would support the theory that Camarena's murder was approved at the highest levels of the government...
...Drug Enforcement Administration. Felix Gallardo, the richest and most cunning member of the infamous "Guadalajara cartel," is blamed for exporting at least two tons of cocaine to the U.S. each month. He is a prime suspect in the 1985 abduction and murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena. Many DEA agents wondered why it took so long to capture Felix Gallardo, since he had been living openly in Guadalajara. Some suspected that his arrest had been timed to coincide with last week's "law-enforcement summit" between U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and his Mexican counterpart, Enrique Alvarez del Castillo...
Authorities believe Felix Gallardo, who was arrested Saturday night in Guadalajara, may also have been involved in the 1985 slaying of U.S. Jrug agent Enrique Camarena Salazar...
...drug agent Enrique Camarena was tortured and murdered in Guadalajara. The search for his killers continues, and disturbing questions remain. In excerpts from her book Desperados, TIME correspondent Elaine Shannon weaves a spellbinding tale of extraordinary courage on the battle lines, cynicism in Washington and deceit at the top levels of Mexico' s government...
...important milestones. It was the nation's first conviction under a 1984 racketeering law that adds new penalties for violence. And it was the first conclusive success in the nation's long effort to punish those responsible for the 1985 murder in Mexico of Drug Enforcement agent Enrique Camarena and his pilot, Alfredo Zavala Avelar. The jury found Alvarez, formerly a member of the Guadalajara homicide squad, guilty of six charges, including two counts of committing violent acts to support racketeering. Jurors saw a videotape of Lopez telling about the torture and slaying of Camarena on the orders of Mexican...