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...last winter's plunge in oil prices stripped the government of a third of its projected annual foreign exchange of $24.5 billion. The economic turmoil has put unprecedented pressure on the political system. Thus Mexicans and foreigners alike were paying close attention to last week's elections in Chihuahua, the country's largest state, where the conservative opposition National Action Party (P.A.N.) enjoys a considerable following. At issue: whether the P.R.I. would maintain its stranglehold on power by means fair or foul...
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...
...century," said Jon Thomas, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters. Mexican drug agents, with the cooperation of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officials, seized and destroyed a record 9,000 tons of marijuana in raids on five plantations in Mexico's northern state of Chihuahua. (The previous record drug bust took place in 1978, when 570 tons of marijuana were seized in Colombia.) In the U.S., the Mexican pot would have had a street value of about $4 billion, according to Mexican judicial officials. The sheer volume may prompt a reassessment of drug traffic...
...Ciudad Juárez foundry, the scrap was turned into table pedestals that were shipped across the border but later tracked down. U.S. officials say they are almost certain that all of the contaminated legs were returned to Mexico. In Chihuahua, the junkyard material was converted into steel reinforcing rods, and according to Mexican officials, about 500 tons of this hot steel were shipped to the U.S. The rods were used in the construction of at least two houses near Farmington, N. Mex., and the owners had to replace their radioactive foundations. An additional 3,500 tons of steel remained...
Roberto Trevino, the technical secretary of Mexico's National Nuclear Safety and Safeguards Commission, stresses that "there is no danger now." Nonetheless, two technicians are still searching for radioactive material on the Chihuahua-Ciudad Juárez highway, and the U.S. Department of Energy has conducted an airborne scan of the contaminated areas. The accident is a symptom of a larger problem, insists Antonio Ponce, a representative of Mexico's Nuclear Workers Union. He charges that the nuclear commission has been lax in cracking down on firms that handle radioactive material carelessly. Responds Trevino: "Their accusations are unfounded...