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...cabal of cartel leaders and top Mexican police, military and intelligence officials who wanted to find out what he knew about Mexican corruption. A Los Angeles grand jury has indicted 19 men for the murder, among them two senior police officers appointed by former Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid. Several other prominent Mexicans, including De la Madrid's Defense Minister and intelligence chief, are under investigation by the grand jury...
...Eduardo Molet, Madrid's traffic jams were not merely an irritation, but also an inspiration. As the capital's gridlock slowed cars to an average speed of 6 m.p.h. and frustrated drivers, the Spanish businessman saw an opportunity. Why not provide stalled motorists with portable telephones so they could call ahead and explain why they were delayed...
Ibarra and Aldana were stars of President Miguel de la Madrid's "permanent campaign" against drugs. But DEA agents believe that they, along with other top law-enforcement, intelligence and military officials, orchestrated the Camarena kidnaping because they feared that the DEA was about to expose their involvement in trafficking. Entries in Camarena's work diary show that at the time of his death he was following leads linking Aldana to the cartel...
...calmly walked into the Restaurant Basque in Madrid last week, strode toward a table of legislators slated to take seats at the parliament's opening the next morning and opened fire. One diner was killed, another badly wounded. As the gunmen left the restaurant, they told a security guard nearby that all was well, then disappeared down a dark street...
Both victims, who were moderate members of the Basque separatist group Herri Batasuna, had hoped that ending their party's ten-year boycott of the parliament would spur negotiations with Madrid to redress Basque grievances. As news of the murders spread, thousands of Basques went into the streets of Bilbao, San Sebastian and other cities, smashing windows and burning buses and cars...