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- <text id=93TT1740>
- <title>
- May 17, 1993: Hot on the Trail
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- May 17, 1993 Anguish over Bosnia
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 16
- WORLD
- Hot on the Trail
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Mexico's top law enforcer gets tough on drug trafficking
- </p>
- <p> When human-rights champion Jorge Carpizo MacGregor took over
- as Mexico's Attorney General early this year, he vowed to crack
- down on drug traffickers and the corrupt government officials
- who collaborate with them. Few citizens expected much action.
- But Mexican police have already killed two drug lords, Rafael
- Aguilar Guajardo and Emilio Quintero Payan, the alleged leader
- of the Guadalajara cartel. Carpizo's agents have captured more
- than 15 tons of cocaine, one-third more than in all of 1992. In
- one bust, police found 7.2 tons of cocaine hidden in 8,000 cans
- of jalapeno peppers.
- </p>
- <p> Carpizo still has his work cut out for him. When Quintero
- died, he was carrying a false drug-agent credential, and two of
- his top aides captured at the time claimed they were protected
- by a senior federal police commander who works in Carpizo's
- office.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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