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Despite the political tensions, the country was curiously quiet in the aftermath of Carrero Blanco's murder. Predictions of widespread violence were proved wrong-at least for the moment. "The reaction has shown the maturity of the Spanish people," trumpeted Madrid's Nuevo Diario...
...month later, Refugio was found with 30 bullets in his body. An ex-paratrooper from Tennessee, who was pushing narcotics in Nuevo Laredo, was suspected of the killing and dispatched with the mathematical precision that has become a trademark of the war, and particularly of the Reyes Pruneda gang. For Refugio's 30 bullets, he received 90. His companion, a U.S. Army deserter who was only interested in buying a pound of pot, was found alongside the Tennessean with 60 bullets in his body. In another grisly episode, an independent dealer was found in a clump of bushes near...
Local police, with fewer men, cars and guns than the gangs, have been unable to stop the killings. But the federal government frequently strikes back. Last May a tough police comandante named Everardo Perales Rīos was sent to clean up Nuevo Laredo. In six weeks, Perales collected three tons of marijuana, two pounds of heroin and quantities of cocaine and raw opium-more drugs than local police had confiscated in 20 years. Unfortunately, Perales' success was his undoing. The gangs put a $5,000 contract on his head...
Shortly after Perales left Nuevo Laredo's Federal Building in a borrowed car one evening in July, gunmen in a red Mustang pulled up alongside and shot him. Perales' replacement, who also has a contract out on him, is taking no chances. He is attended by a score of federal bodyguards. A special federal investigator looking into the killings sleeps across the border in Laredo, Texas...
Clean People. One prominent Nuevo Laredo citizen, rumored to be altogether too close to the gangs, is Francisco Javier Bernal López, a mustachioed attorney who used to make his living from the quickie-Mexican-divorce trade, which was stopped when the law was changed in 1970. Bernal denies that he is in fact El Padrino (the Godfather); "I don't have a gang," he told TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich last week. "How am I going to order killings? My clients consult, but that is legal." His clients include the Reyes Pruneda family, whose forces are supplemented...