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...many cities the growing popularity of Latin cuisine is altering the dining landscape. Once viewed as cheap neighborhood eateries, Mexican restaurants now number among the most upscale and trendy dining spots. "It's incredible the way it has exploded outside the border states," says Ramon Gallardo, a St. Louis restaurateur who founded and later sold the Casa Gallardo chain. In cities with large Latin populations, the trend goes beyond Mexican restaurants specifically to include a wide array of bistros, featuring the less familiar cuisines of Nicaragua, Cuba and Colombia...
...world, along the spine of the Andes in Bolivia, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador, both the lower and middle classes have begun smoking coca paste, a potent and addictive form of cocaine that costs only pennies a cigarette. "These countries have never had a problem like this before," says Manuel Gallardo, chief of the Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotics Matters. "Their people are getting strung out right and left from all social classes, and the governments don't know what to do." Drug dealers are so high-handed in Colombia that last week they gunned down Carlos Luna...
...Enrique Camarena Salazar, was abducted in the same city. His corpse was found the following month in a plastic bag. While dozens of police officers were dismissed or jailed in the wake of the murder, Washington claims many other suspects remain at large. U.S. officials say Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, a drug lord believed to have been involved in the execution, still sends regular shipments of cocaine across the border...
...prime suspects in the Camarena-Zavala case are still two Mexican drug kingpins, Miguel Felix Gallardo and Rafael Caro Quintero. But the U.S. believes that Mexico's gangland "families" have been operating with wide- scale police protection. Officers who were supposedly tracking Caro Quintero in connection with the Camarena case claimed they simply failed to recognize the well-known crook when he boarded a private plane in Guadalajara two days after the agent's abduction. Caro Quintero flew to Caborca, a remote desert town where he may now be in hiding...
...suspicion in the kidnaping focused on two drug-trafficking families, headed by Miguel Felix Gallardo and Rafael Caro Quintero. Arthur Sedillo, another Mexico-based DEA agent, told members of the President's Commission on Organized Crime in Miami last week that both families are heavily involved in opium and marijuana production and are believed to have joint operations with Colombian drug mafiosos. Earlier, DEA Deputy Administrator John C. Lawn testified that the Guadalajara traficantes had threatened eyewitnesses to the Camarena abduction. Added Lawn: "There was a reluctance on the part of law enforcement authorities in Guadalajara and Mexico City...