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- GRAPEVINE, Page 27
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- By PAUL GRAY/Reported by David Ellis
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- BEHIND MEXICO'S GRIPES. Relations with Mexico have been
- badly strained by the Drug Enforcement Administration's role in
- the clandestine snatch of a Mexican physician indicted in the
- 1985 murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena Salazar. But some
- Mexican officials may be worried about more than their nation's
- sovereignty. Dr. Humberto Alvarez Machain, delivered to El Paso
- by Mexican bounty hunters in April, could provide testimony on
- relationships between drug kingpins and Mexico's secret police
- agency, the Federal Security Directorate (DFS). DEA agents
- contend that the DFS was the brains behind much of Mexico's drug
- trade -- and that certain DFS officials helped orchestrate
- Camarena's death. Camarena and his partners put Alvarez under
- surveillance after being told that he carried DFS credentials.
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