Word: miguel
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Unlike his predecessor, Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, Mexico's President Carlos Salinas de Gortari seems determined to crack down on the drug lords. In the past 21 months, federal judicial police have confiscated 80,000 kilos of cocaine, more than was seized during De la Madrid's entire six-year term. But the offensive could stall. Last month Salinas announced the resignation of his drug czar, Javier Coello Trejo. Reason: alleged human-rights abuses by police, including murders...
...October 1987 President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado unveiled Salinas as the P.R.I.'s presidential candidate for 1988, anointing him as crown prince. But his struggle was not over. Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, the son of a venerated former President, broke with the P.R.I. and ran a populist campaign that drew unexpectedly strong support. Partisans insisted that Cardenas won and that the 50.3% of the vote credited to Salinas was the result of massive fraud. Though election chicanery is commonplace in Mexico, Salinas is the first President to have the legitimacy of his mandate widely questioned...
...General Miguel Maza Marquez narrows his hard brown eyes when he mentions his quarry. "He's somewhere in Medellin, and very soon we'll get him." The chief of Colombia's secret police, or DAS, has been offering that prediction for nearly a year. But each time authorities announce that the capture of Pablo Escobar Gaviria is imminent, the overlord of the Medellin drug cartel slithers away. Just last week Escobar managed to elude the police once again after a massive drug raid in the northeastern part of the country. But 11 top advisers of his drug ring, including...
...killed by a 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...
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...