Proceso, April 23, 1990, No. 703, pp. 6-10.
From an article in Spanish, we entered the names of 49 Drug Enforcement
Administration personnel who were posted to Mexico as of 1990 and registered
with them for purposes of diplomatic immunity. The Mexican magazine Proceso
published these names the same month that Mexico filed a formal protest with
the State Department over the abduction of a Mexican doctor by the DEA.
Humberto Alvarez Machain, who was suspected of involvement in the 1985
murder of DEA undercover agent Enrique Camarena, was illegally detained in
Mexico and then illegally transferred to the U.S. to stand trial. DEA deputy
director Pete Gruden authorized payment of $50,000 plus expenses to the
Mexican bounty hunters who snatched him. In December 1992, a federal judge
ruled that the government lacked the evidence to convict Alvarez Machain and
ordered him returned to Mexico.
Everyone is dirty when it comes to the Mexican connection. After
Camarena was murdered, DEA chief Francis Mullen announced that "Mexico
hasn't arrested a major drug trafficker in eight years." Then at the 1990
Los Angeles trial of four others accused in the Camarena case, it was
revealed that DEA agents blamed the CIA for protecting the Mexican drug
cartels. Apparently the CIA did not want to endanger its long-standing
relationship with Mexico's corrupt Federal Security Directorate (DFS),
which over the years has helped the CIA spy on the Cubans and Soviets.
Extract the names from this source
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