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...nation's capital. Last January, Carrillo was in the news again when he disappeared, propitiously, from his sister Aurora's wedding at the family's Guamuchilito ranch, just before law enforcers arrived to crash the event. It later emerged that Mexico's drug czar at the time, General Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo, had been on Carrillo's payroll. DEA agents believe Carrillo had been on the run since Gutierrez Rebollo's arrest in February...
...Thursday the Mexican navy burned a ton of seized cocaine on the resort island of Cozumel. More substantively, Time has learned, President Zedillo will soon announce that he plans to scrap Mexico's existing narcotics-fighting apparatus--including the tainted National Institute to Combat Drugs, headed by General Gutierrez--and start fresh with an independent new agency modeled on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Under the plan, the DEA, the FBI and even the CIA would be invited to help train and screen a new crop of better-paid Mexican drug fighters. "We guarantee this new agency will be bulletproof...
Proponents of certification countered that trade and immigration links, not to mention a 2,000-mile border, made amicable relations with Mexico imperative. Swallowing his humiliation in the Gutierrez affair, McCaffrey told the press last week, "It is our belief that the U.S. and Mexico are trapped economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime, in the same continent, and we'd better figure out a way to work on it together for the next 10 to 20 years...
...that reaches the U.S. The two-year-old government of President Ernesto Zedillo, which succeeded a regime peppered with charges of corruption, had made great efforts to be seen as a credible partner in the war against drugs. Why then would Zedillo fail to send an early warning when Gutierrez was first suspected--and as a result embarrass the Administration? The timing was especially unfortunate. The arrest took place less than two weeks before Clinton is to send his annual report to Congress certifying Mexico's commitment to the antidrug effort. While Clinton will not decertify Mexico, the news undercuts...
According to a senior Mexican official, however, Zedillo and Cervantes had huddled after Feb. 6, deciding not to inform Washington--and thus risk Clinton's wrath--until a solid case developed against Gutierrez. Zedillo may have seen a chance to flex some badly needed muscle and make sure Mexico's generals understood that the impetus to nab Gutierrez came from him--and not the U.S. In any case, Zedillo does not much care for certification. It is, he told Time, "a rather improper procedure, not very consistent with the principles of international...