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Mexican authorities insist that Cortez was merely held briefly for questioning. But Cortez told a Tucson news conference last week that he probably would have been killed if DEA agents in Guadalajara had not forced his release. Cortez, who claimed he was beaten and had chili juice and carbonated water forced into his nose, said a captor told him, "If you think this is bad, wait until we get you out into the country, and you'll see what Camarena went through." The reference was to DEA Agent Enrique Camarena Salazar, who was kidnaped and murdered in 1985. The Jalisco...
...efforts by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the military and domestic law-enforcement agencies to prosecute drug traffickers and interdict supplies. Despite much heralded busts, like one last week in Pennsylvania that broke up a drug ring charged with smuggling more than seven tons of cocaine into the U.S., the DEA has only about 2,500 agents, the same number as in 1975. It remains unclear whether Reagan plans to send them substantial reinforcements...
...operation's shaky beginnings, including raids on vacant storage sites. Eventually the press corps was offered a field trip to a captured drug laboratory known as El Zorro. When reporters assembled at the air base last Tuesday, sputtering engine noises drowned out officials' attempts at a dignified briefing. Then DEA's DC-3 got stuck in mud up to its propellers while attempting to take off. Twenty Bolivian MPs finally had to push it out of the mire...
...DEA officials insist that the world drug situation has changed dramatically in the year since Mills finished researching and writing his book. The rise of new governments committed to combatting drug traffickers -- in Bolivia particularly -- has bolstered U.S. efforts. Reagan Administration officials point out that the U.S. has sponsored crop-eradication programs in 14 countries, reached a banking agreement with Switzerland that facilitates the monitoring of suspicious accounts, and negotiated an extradition treaty for use against drug traffickers in Colombia. Pakistan's opium crop, although large, has been reduced from 600 tons a year in 1981. The reduction...
...estimated 18% of coke shipments arrive on commercial airlines. Last month a DEA official revealed that a grand jury was preparing criminal indictments against as many as 50 Eastern Air Lines workers, mostly baggage handlers, who allegedly had smuggled a billion dollars' worth of cocaine into Miami in the cargo bellies of jets. Customs officers routinely find large caches of cocaine aboard flights from the main producing countries, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia. Inspectors at Miami International Airport found a near- record shipment of 3,227 lbs. of cocaine in January aboard a cargo jet owned by Avianca, the Colombian national...