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...fate of Enrique ("Kiki") Camarena Salazar still infuriates his colleagues in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. At 37, Camarena was an aggressive and resourceful U.S. drug agent, deftly juggling a network of contacts in his native Mexico and setting the stage for major busts. Three years ago, the muscular ex-Marine was kidnaped near the U.S. consulate in Guadalajara, savagely beaten and interrogated by nearly 50 inquisitors. A Mexican pilot employed by Camarena was kidnaped and beaten as well. A month later the bodies of the two men were discovered by the side of the road near a ranch some...
...Camarena's horrible death deeply strained relations between Washington and Mexico City. Though Mexican officials eventually arrested more than 60 people in connection with the case, no one has ever been convicted of the murder. Last week the U.S. moved to advance the probe as a federal grand jury in Los Angeles handed up indictments against nine defendants. (The U.S. claims jurisdiction because the murder of an American official anywhere in the world is a crime under federal...
...suggestion of high-level Mexican involvement apparently surfaced during the investigation of the February 1985 torture-murder of U.S. Drug Enforcement Agent Enrique Camarena Salazar. Last week a Mexican law-enforcement official, Mario Martinez- Herrera, was indicted by a San Diego grand jury looking into the Camarena case. A suspected eyewitness to the murder, Martinez was also, according to the Union, carrying papers detailing a "network of payoffs" that allegedly implicated the Mexican officials. Martinez's lawyer dismissed the report as speculation...
...disturbing case was by no means the first attack on U.S. narcotics officers in Guadalajara, Mexico's third largest city. In October 1984 gunfire peppered a DEA agent's car while it was parked in front of his Guadalajara home. Four months later another U.S. drug buster, Enrique Camarena Salazar, was abducted in the same city. His corpse was found the following month in a plastic bag. While dozens of police officers were dismissed or jailed in the wake of the murder, Washington claims many other suspects remain at large. U.S. officials say Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, a drug lord...
...Guadalajara had not forced his release. Cortez, who claimed he was beaten and had chili juice and carbonated water forced into his nose, said a captor told him, "If you think this is bad, wait until we get you out into the country, and you'll see what Camarena went through." The reference was to DEA Agent Enrique Camarena Salazar, who was kidnaped and murdered in 1985. The Jalisco state police unit that detained Cortez was involved in the Camarena case...