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...DEA intelligence reports estimated that Suarez's coca operations were earning him $400 million a year. In an effort to catch him, U.S. antinarcotics forces launched one of the most elaborate sting operations in the DEA's history. A dozen agents posed as underworld financiers and traffickers. By purchasing $9 million worth of coca paste, they lured two alleged Suarez associates to Miami for the payoff--and arrested them. As a result of the operation, Suarez was indicted by a Miami federal grand jury: so far, however, he has eluded his pursuers. He has also repeatedly denied any involvement...
...phase of the business. Sixteen months ago, customs seized 667 kilos of cocaine, at that time the largest haul in history, at an airport near Caracas, Venezuela. In Paraguay last September, officials intercepted 49,000 gal. of ether, acetone and hydrochloric acid, enough to process eight tons of cocaine; DEA officials speculate that influential Paraguayans might be involved in drug trafficking. Cocaine arrests in Trinidad soared to 150 in 1983 from three in 1978. In the Bahamas, three Cabinet ministers in the government of Prime Minister Lynden O. Pindling resigned from their posts and two others were fired just before...
...added, however, that "last October in Guadalajara, the U.S. government vehicle of another DEA agent assigned to Guadalajara was machine-gunned by unknown in dividuals outside of the agent's house. There were no injuries or arrest in that incident...
Feldkamp said that since Camarena's reported abduction additional DEA agents have been rushed to Guadalajara, located about 280 miles west Mexico City, from the Mexican capital and Texas in to assist local police in searching for the missing agent...
Camarene, 37 has been been with the DEA since June 1974. Beginning in June 1980 he was assigned to the agency's office in Guadalajara where he lived with his wife. Genexo and three children Feldkamp said...