Word: mexicans
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...weeks Gavin and other U.S. officials had criticized Mexico's "lack of vigor and . . . cooperation" in the hunt for Camarena. The U.S. went so far as to inspect every automobile at many of the 26 official crossing points along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexican border, aggravating already tense diplomatic relations. Last week, after drug traffickers threatened to kidnap and kill a Customs officer, U.S. border agents packed .357 Magnum revolvers and carried shotguns on duty. Nine remote stations were closed, hurting business in border towns from California to Texas. At week's end only two had been reopened...
...crisis was far from resolved by the discovery of the two men's bodies. U.S. officials suspect that Mexican law-enforcement officers may actually have been involved in the abduction and murder. "We have a great many questions (about the story)," said Gavin...
First came the huge traffic jams along the U.S.-Mexican border--called the "Yankee Blockade" by Mexican tabloids--as U.S. officials searched for kidnaped Drug Enforcement Agency Agent Enrique Camarena Salazar, 37. Then the head of the DEA, Francis M. Mullen Jr., who was leaving the agency to join a Connecticut-based security-consulting firm, strained relations between the two countries further by charging that Mexican police permitted a prime suspect in the Camarena case, Drug Kingpin Rafael Caro Quintero, to slip out of the country...
Perhaps in response to Washington's pressure, Mexican police detained a former Mexican security officer and two former policemen for questioning--only to release them four days later. DEA officials suggested that the arrests had been made only for show; the new DEA chief, Robert Lawn, even accused Mexican police of a role in Camarena's kidnaping. With so much sniping across the border, the Mexicans tried to salvage their image. In a national television appearance, Defense Secretary Juan Arevalo Gardoqui declared, "We are fervent and passionate fighters against the (narcotics) traffic...
...concerns about Mexican law enforcement officials' reluctance to follow up firmly on robbery and attack cases is a major reason Washington is considering issuing a travel warning. "It's not something we do lightly," says a U.S. official. "On the other hand, we have a responsibility to warn our nationals of danger...