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...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 out by the Mexican government. We think they were unaware of the magnitude of the problem...
...gray-flecked hair. For more than two decades, Marasco, 46, has erected shopping centers and sports arenas throughout the Southwest. He never had global ambitions. But then he had a crazy dream: a huge open-air shopping and entertainment complex located in the San Diego suburb of San Ysidro--but connected to Tijuana, Mexico, by its very own 525-ft. pedestrian bridge. Marasco says he wants "to make the whole border-crossing experience full of color, light and energy." And in pursuit of that vision, he is getting quite an education in international business...
...most Mexicans believe that U.S. customs agents are also on the take and permit some vehicles to cruise through border inspection stations in exchange for money. Just last month Jose Antonio Olvera, a U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service inspector at Tijuana-San Ysidro border crossings, pleaded guilty to taking almost $90,000 in bribes to let drug shipments through. (Olvera claims he did it because the cartel had threatened to kidnap his five-year-old son.) "If relatively well-paid U.S. agents aren't immune to it," says one Mexican prosecutor, "how can we expect Mexican police...
...should be concerned about the economy. However, it's human nature to ignore a problem, no matter how big, until it hits home. ENRIQUE SALAZAR San Ysidro, Calif...
...July 18, 1984, James Huberty walked into a McDonald's in San Ysidro, Calif. with an overcoat and several semi-automatic weapons. He proceeded to kill 21 people and wound 15 more. Later, he was cut down by police sharpshooters stationed outside the restaurant...