Word: guadalajara
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Four years after her parents divorced in 1971, she moved from Guadalajara to Texas with her Mexican mother. Taking advantage of her father's U.S. nationality, Laura became a naturalized citizen in 1979, when she was 14. Bilingual in Spanish and English, she added French during a year of school in Switzerland and did a stint as a social worker in India. Two years ago, a friend in El Paso encouraged Herring to enter a beauty contest. Chosen Miss El Paso in 1984, she became Miss Texas this year and finally Miss U.S.A., the first Hispanic and the first foreign...
Camarena, an agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration, was helping block the narcotics pipeline from Mexico into the U.S. when he and his pilot disappeared on Feb. 7. Last month their battered bodies were found in plastic bags on a ranch outside Guadalajara...
Caro Quintero said that he had bribed Mexican police and government officials with more than 1 billion pesos ($4.3 million) over the years. He revealed that he had paid a police commandant in Jalisco 60 million pesos ($261,000) for allowing him to take a private jet out of Guadalajara a few days after the kidnapings. The drug dealer estimated his income at about $400 a month--but he admitted to owning twelve houses and 36 luxury cars, the latter intended as police bribes...
That acknowledgment came as authorities arraigned six Jalisco state policemen last week on charges related to the kidnap and murder of U.S. Narcotics Agent Enrique Camarena Salazar in Guadalajara last month. The arrested officers have confessed that drug traffickers offered them from $200 to $6,250 a month for official protection--a tempting bribe for men who make only $200 to $400 a month and often must buy their own pistols...
...arrested officer, Commander Gabriel Gonzalez Gonzalez, died in police custody. Mexican authorities, insisting that Gonzalez died of natural causes, described him as a cocaine addict and an "intimate friend" of alleged Drug Kingpin Rafael Caro Quintero. But U.S. officials considered Gonzalez trustworthy: as Jalisco's top homicide detective for Guadalajara, Gonzalez had been investigating the Camarena kidnaping and the disappearance of six other Americans in recent months...