Word: mexicans
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That, at least, is the way the story is being told by some Mexican officials. All that is known for certain is that 24 people were arrested, including, it is believed, members of various Mexican police units. The most important catch, however, was Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, 60, known as El Padrino, or the Godfather. He is reputed to be Mexico's leading drug trafficker and a prime suspect in the kidnap-murder of U.S. Narcotics Agent Enrique Camarena Salazar...
...Reagan Administration, which has complained strongly about Mexico's apparently laggard efforts to catch the murderers, was quick with praise. The arrest came only five days after the capture in San Jose, Costa Rica, of another Mexican drug kingpin, Rafael Caro Quintero, 29, who had fled shortly after the murder of Camarena and his Mexican pilot Alfredo Zavala Avelar. Caro Quintero was deported to Mexico and last week was charged in a Mexico City court with drug trafficking, arms smuggling and criminal association. Authorities have not yet determined whether he is to be charged with murder...
According to Mexican officials, Fonseca told them last week that he had seen Camarena and Caro Quintero at the ranch the day after the kidnapings. Fonseca said that he and Caro Quintero were angry with the agent over a police and army raid on a plantation in Chihuahua, owned by the two drug dealers, in which 8,000 tons of marijuana were burned. Fonseca added that the intention had been to question Camarena and offer him a bribe. He also claimed that he was too drunk to talk to Camarena until the next day, when Caro Quintero allegedly told...
...kidnapings and killings. When he appeared in court in Mexico City last week, his arms and right shoulder showed faint marks, which he said were the result of police beatings. In his confession, which he alleged had been obtained through torture, 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...
...Hispanic origin, almost two-thirds speak Spanish, and many were Viet Nam veterans. Hondurans from Las Hormigas, a village near the Texans' temporary base (dubbed "the Alamo"), responded with surprise and delight when they heard the foreign soldiers speaking Spanish. "I was asked if we were in the Mexican army," Sergeant Raul Ortiz, 35, a Viet Nam veteran, laughingly told TIME Correspondent David S. Jackson. The men who had seen action in the war were excited by the prospect of a sham battle. "These boys are pretty charged up," said Staff Sergeant Ray Sloane, 38, another Viet Nam veteran. White...