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- Subject: NEWS:Mexican Officials Accused in DEA Murder
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- edlp 12/10 Translated and edited by Toby Mailman. "el Diario/La
- Prensa" is a Spanish language newspaper published in New York
- City.
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- MEXICAN OFFICIALS ACCUSED OF CAMARENA MURDER
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- In testimony on Dec. 9, in the trial of Dr. Humberto Alvarez
- Machain and Ruben Zuno Arce, a former bodyguard of drug trafficker
- Ernesto Fonscea, Jorge Godoy, described four meetings in which the
- kidnapping of Enrique Camarena was discussed.
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- Camarena was a US DEA agent killed in 1985. Machain and Zuno are
- accused of involvement in the killing. Godoy said the meetings in
- which Camareno's kidnapping was discussed were attended by heads
- of the Guadalajara drug ring, then-Mexican Minister of Defense
- Juan Arevalo and then-Minister of the Interior Manual Bartlett
- Diaz. He said that the governor of the state of Jalisco, Enrique
- Alvarez del Castillo, and the director of Interpol, Manuel Aldana
- Ibarra, also attended some meetings. He said Mexican authorities
- located and identified Camarena so that the drug traffickers could
- kidnap and kill him.
-
- Mexican officials immediately reacted to the assertions. Bartlett
- Diaz, recently elected as governor of the state of Puebla, denied
- any involvement in the the case. Dr. Alvarez is accused of using
- his medical knowledge to keep Camareno alive while he was being
- tortured. (edlp 12/10 from AP)
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- edlp 12/11
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- MACHAIN MAY NOT FACE CHARGES IN CAMARENA CASE
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- Federal Judge Edward Rafeedie said he may drop the charges against
- a Mexican doctor in the case of the torture and death of US DEA
- agent Enrique Camarena. He said there was no evidence that the
- doctor, Humberto Alvarez Machain, had directly participated in the
- kidnapping of the agent. Prosecuting attorneys said that Alvarez
- injected Camarena with drugs to keep him alive while he was
- tortured by drug traffickers. However, Judge Rafeedie said the
- only evidence was that the doctor was at the site, but not that he
- had injected anything. Machain supposedly confessed that he had
- been at the house but had not participated in the torture. His
- defense lawyer, Alan Rubin, said the confession had been obtained
- under pressure and could not be used in court. (edlp 12/11 from
- AP)
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