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Late on the morning of Saturday, April 8, Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, Mexico's most notorious drug trafficker, awoke with a stomachache. It was a telling omen. As Felix Gallardo pulled open the bedroom curtains of his house in Guadalajara, two police lookouts from a twelve-man task force gave the signal. The agents jumped over a neighbor's wall and broke down the back door, surprising Felix Gallardo on the staircase of his two-story home. He was still in his pajamas. Pinned to the floor, he begged his captors to kill him. When they refused, he offered them...
...Salinas crackdown was greeted with cautious optimism by agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Felix Gallardo, the richest and most cunning member of the infamous "Guadalajara cartel," is blamed for exporting at least two tons of cocaine to the U.S. each month. He is a prime suspect in the 1985 abduction and murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena. Many DEA agents wondered why it took so long to capture Felix Gallardo, since he had been living openly in Guadalajara. Some suspected that his arrest had been timed to coincide with last week's "law-enforcement summit" between U.S. Attorney...
Authorities believe Felix Gallardo, who was arrested Saturday night in Guadalajara, may also have been involved in the 1985 slaying of U.S. Jrug agent Enrique Camarena Salazar...
American officials investigating the killing of Camerena, who had been kidnapped outside the U.S. consulate in Guadalajara, said Felix Gallardo was able to build up an immense operation with protection from high, Mexican officials, including a state, governor...
...drug agent Enrique Camarena was tortured and murdered in Guadalajara. The search for his killers continues, and disturbing questions remain. In excerpts from her book Desperados, TIME correspondent Elaine Shannon weaves a spellbinding tale of extraordinary courage on the battle lines, cynicism in Washington and deceit at the top levels of Mexico' s government...