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...tersely announced that the search for Enrique Camarena Salazar had ended. Camarena, a U.S. citizen and an eleven-year veteran of the Drug Enforcement Administration, had been kidnaped by four gunmen in Guadalajara early last month. Alfredo Zavala Avelar, a pilot who flew Camarena on many of his DEA missions, had been abducted later that same day. The bodies of the men, Gavin said, were discovered by the side of a road near a ranch about 100 miles from Guadalajara. They had been severely beaten, and bound, gagged, and stuffed into white plastic bags. Said Gavin: "We call on responsible...
Three days afterward, DEA agents and Mexican police searched the 30-acre ranch and its surroundings but found no sign of Camarena and Zavala. But that evening, a peasant youth discovered the two plastic bags about ten yards from a highway that runs past the Bravo ranch. The corpses had apparently been dumped there after the agents left the ranch. The soil found on the bags was not common to the immediate area. Investigators concluded that the bodies had been buried, disinterred and brought to the ranch so they could be found there...
First came the huge traffic jams along the U.S.-Mexican border--called the "Yankee Blockade" by Mexican tabloids--as U.S. officials searched for kidnaped Drug Enforcement Agency Agent Enrique Camarena Salazar, 37. Then the head of the DEA, Francis M. Mullen Jr., who was leaving the agency to join a Connecticut-based security-consulting firm, strained relations between the two countries further by charging that Mexican police permitted a prime suspect in the Camarena case, Drug Kingpin Rafael Caro Quintero, to slip out of the country...
Perhaps in response to Washington's pressure, Mexican police detained a former Mexican security officer and two former policemen for questioning--only to release them four days later. DEA officials suggested that the arrests had been made only for show; the new DEA chief, Robert Lawn, even accused Mexican police of a role in Camarena's kidnaping. With so much sniping across the border, the Mexicans tried to salvage their image. In a national television appearance, Defense Secretary Juan Arevalo Gardoqui declared, "We are fervent and passionate fighters against the (narcotics) traffic...
Since December, seven Americans, including the DEA agent, have disappeared. Benjamin and Patricia Mascarenas of Ely, Nev., and Dennis and Rose Carlson, of Redding, Calif., all Jehovah's Witnesses, are believed to have been abducted while distributing evangelical literature. On the night of Jan. 30, John Walker and Alberto Radelat failed to return to Walker's Guadalajara apartment after they went out for a drink...