Word: deas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...news again when he disappeared, propitiously, from his sister Aurora's wedding at the family's Guamuchilito ranch, just before law enforcers arrived to crash the event. It later emerged that Mexico's drug czar at the time, General Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo, had been on Carrillo's payroll. DEA agents believe Carrillo had been on the run since Gutierrez Rebollo's arrest in February...
...significant, Carrillo demanded that the Colombians pay him in white powder rather than cash. This allowed him to set up vast U.S. distribution networks of his own. With most of the Cali dons imprisoned since 1995, Carrillo had become the single most important force in the American cocaine market. DEA agents believe his organization currently grosses $4 million to $5 million...
...learned, President Zedillo will soon announce that he plans to scrap Mexico's existing narcotics-fighting apparatus--including the tainted National Institute to Combat Drugs, headed by General Gutierrez--and start fresh with an independent new agency modeled on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Under the plan, the DEA, the FBI and even the CIA would be invited to help train and screen a new crop of better-paid Mexican drug fighters. "We guarantee this new agency will be bulletproof when it comes to corruption," says a high-ranking Mexican official...
Some Clinton aides are impressed with the initiative. "If this is for real, and we think it is, it's a very important step," says a senior U.S. official. But those who have watched Mexico burn its promises before are skeptical. Complained DEA administrator Tom Constantine: "There is not one single civilian law-enforcement institution in Mexico with which the DEA has a really trusting relationship." U.S. agents doubt Mexico's new drug superagency will be the first...
...state legislation directs government agencies to continue to enforce this law to the letter. Doctors who abuse their prescription privilege by following the new state rules could lose the right to prescribe drugs, said Drug Enforcement Administration spokeswoman Catherine Shaw. This could prove devastating for physicians, as they need DEA certification to prescribe legal pharmaceuticals. The federal strategy was drawn up by several agencies at the request of President Clinton. The President has yet to review the plan but it has been approved by the DEA, FBI, and the departments of Justice, Transportation and Health and Human Services...