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Seeking protection and status, many inmates join gang syndicates such as the Bloods, the Mexican Mafia and the Aryan Brotherhood, whose inflexible ethic of vengeance ensures that no knife attack can ever be the last. "The guards can't solve all this fighting," laments one convicted murderer, Kenneth Foutenette. "The only solution is the inmates." Says William Charles, a lanky con in his 20s serving an eight-year sentence: "It's fighting for race. They stab someone, and we get 'em back." Above Charles' sink, like a battle flag, hangs the distinctive red kerchief of the Bloods, a major gang...
...before All Souls' Day, a Roman Catholic holiday also known as the Day of the Dead. As part of the Mexican government's efforts to crack down on drug smugglers, 17 policemen made a sweep of the mountainous "bandit country" in the state of Veracruz, 300 miles southeast of Mexico City. Nearing the banks of the Coachapa River in predawn darkness, the government force surprised a gang of some 50 drug traffickers in the act of loading 1,300 lbs. of marijuana onto a boat. The police had hardly shouted a warning when the smugglers opened fire...
...grisly incident highlighted Mexico's problems in controlling its illegal drug trade. Washington has been pressuring the Mexican government to take stronger measures against drug traffic since a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officer, Enrique Camarena Salazar, was kidnaped and killed in Mexico last February. In the past year U.S. Customs agents have reported a marked increase in narcotics smuggling across the U.S.-Mexican border. Last month two major busts yielded $40 million worth of cocaine near San Ysidro, Calif. Said a U.S. embassy spokesman in Mexico City of last week's raid: "This was an operation carried...
...week's end 20 people were being held for questioning in the massacre. Two informers who had reportedly accompanied police and survived the ordeal were "contributing information." So far one suspect has been arrested. Brigadier General Jaime Jiménez Muńóz, a Mexican army commander, believes that armed peasants, "desperate to earn money" by growing marijuana, may have done the killing. Indeed, military patrols have reported that entire villages have been abandoned by frightened peasants as soldiers comb the mountains, searching for the culprits. But evidence also indicates that powerful drug traffickers are behind the murders. "We are fighting...
...tabulate the figure only twelve hours before its release, instead of 65. During the six hours or so they are working on the calculations, employees are confined to an office suite with no telephone privileges. If they need to use the restroom, a chaperon must go along. COMMUNICATIONS Mexican Connection for U.P.I...