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Thornton cites the example of the Drug Enforcement Agency's (DEA) and other governmental agencies' attempts to eradicate the sale of marijuana in South Florida in 1984. The DEA was successful in almost completely drying up the pool of available marijuana, but suppliers of marijuana simply switched to supplying cocaine instead...
...three men who stood at Alvarez Machain's elbow had only a few brusque words. "We're police officers," one said to the DEA agents. "Here's your fugitive." Then the three clambered back aboard the plane and took...
...ended the DEA's five-year pursuit of Alvarez Machain, 42, a Guadalajara gynecologist wanted in connection with the 1985 torture and slaying of DEA special agent Enrique Camarena. DEA agents call Alvarez Machain "Dr. Mengele," after the notorious Nazi physician. Informants say the doctor injected Camarena with the stimulant lidocaine to prevent his heart from failing during a brutal interrogation...
...eyewitnesses. Seven of the suspects indicted in Los Angeles are in Mexican custody, but the government has denied U.S. requests to question them. Though two defendants have been convicted of the murder in U.S. courts and five others are awaiting trial, so far none have agreed to talk. The DEA hopes that the doctor will crack. "Alvarez Machain is weak," says one investigator. "He can't do hard time...
...week, as word of his capture leaked out, Mexican newspapers and politicians let loose a torrent of protest against high-handed Yanqui tactics. "The intervention in Mexican territory, once again, is extremely dangerous for the sovereignty of the nation," complained the national daily Excelsior. Unfazed by the diplomatic heat, DEA agents hint that more snatches may be in the works. They plan to pay a bounty of more than $100,000 to the shadowy team that spirited Alvarez Machain out of Mexico. Says a DEA investigator: "There are a lot of guys looking over their shoulder right...