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Though Federico Martinez Macias spent almost 10 years on death row in Texas, the case against him was never strong. He was charged with a double murder arising from a 1983 El Paso burglary. The prime witness was himself a suspect, who was allowed to plead to a lesser charge for testifying against Macias. This man first told a grand jury that he had waited in a car while Macias committed the crime. But when confronted with evidence to the contrary -- including a failed polygraph test -- he subsequently admitted that he had gone into the victims' home and tied...
...ever changing, ever dangerous international narcotics trade from the safety of her Washington office. For this week's story on the growing influence and sophistication of Mexican cartels, Shannon traveled to one of the front lines of the war on drugs: the U.S.-Mexico border town of El Paso, Texas, which has become a prime gateway for drug smugglers. Thanks to an alliance between the Cali cartel of Colombia and alleged Mexican drug lord Amado Carillo Fuentes, Shannon says, "60% of the cocaine shipped to the U.S. now passes through Mexico. In this case, two plus two equals...
Last November a U.S. customs inspector in El Paso, Texas, had a funny feeling about a Honda Accord that was attempting to cross from Mexico into the U.S. He motioned the car over to take a closer look, and the driver leaped out and disappeared down the street. When the El Paso police opened the trunk, they discovered three bodies: those of Josa Munoz Rubalcava, a retired Mexican police official, and his two sons, Alberto, 24, and Casar, 21. Someone had stabbed all three men in the back, trussed them with rope and added a macabre finishing touch...
...into the trunks of cars, then relying on a combination of speed, scattershot runs and sheer bravado. Sometimes they blitz the border posts, sending eight or 10 vehicles through at a time, betting that U.S. Customs will search at most one vehicle in the convoy. A group in El Paso has even taken to hiring "port runners"-young drivers who are instructed to floor the accelerator and take off into El Paso if agents try to stop them for inspection...
...thought we'd usher in a new era where all this progress would be made," said Santiago in a speech titled "Black Skin, Latin Soul: Caught Between Two Cultures." "Now it's 1995. Que paso? What happened...