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...murders remain unsolved. But Kuykendall, who has served more than 30 years and is considered the dean of the "border rats," as Texas DEA agents call themselves, thinks he knows who sent the present -- Amado Carillo Fuentes. As the purported head of the Chihuahua drug cartel, Carillo is reputed to have littered the streets of Juarez with the bodies of informants each time one of his drug shipments is seized by U.S. agents. Although DEA officials are not exactly sure where Carillo lives (somewhere in Chihuahua, they think), when he was born (perhaps 1955), or what he looks like (they...
Carillo's cool competence appeals to the Cali traffickers. The Cali dons "don't want to deal with some jerk that's running around shooting everybody," says a veteran DEA agent specializing in the cartel. The Colombian bosses allegedly employ Carillo as a kind of nuncio for communicating information to the Mexican federation, keeping peace among rival Mafias along the border and subcontracting Cali business to them. "He has the ability to form alliances," says one U.S. analyst. "He's been the pacifier. If you're going to have power, you have to be able to make alliances...
...profits only started rolling in during the past year, when, U.S. agents have discovered, the Cali cartel began paying the Mexican families partly in cocaine and granted them territory in the U.S. where they could distribute and sell drugs themselves. That's a business with much higher profit margins. DEA and FBI agents say they are stymied by the ability of the Mexican operatives in San Diego and Los Angeles to fade into invisibility among these cities' vast populations of illegal Mexican immigrants. Colombian drug dealers may own cars and property and even have bank accounts, but the Mexican operatives...
...Attorney General who resigned in frustration last spring and now lives in self-imposed exile in Alexandria, Virginia. Valle says many of the country's federal police commissioners and assistant attorneys general receive payoffs from drug lords. "It's a frigging disaster of enormous proportions," says a senior DEA agent, commenting on the burgeoning culture of corruption. "The rot is nothing like we've ever seen before...
That is a 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...