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- Subject: US Judge Frees Mexican MD Kidnapped by DEA
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- From el diario/La Prensa 12/15/92
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- 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 Doctor Will Not Face Camarena Charges in US Court
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- On Dec. 14 in Los Angeles, California, US Federal Judge Edward
- Rafeedie dismissed charges against Humberto Alvarez Machain, a
- Mexican doctor accused of having been involved with the torture
- and death of US [DEA] agent Enrique Camarena.
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- Camarena was kidnapped, tortured and killed by Mexican drug
- "barons" in Guadalajara, Mexico in 1985. Judge Rafeedie said that
- the only evidence against Machain presented by the prosecutors was
- to demonstrate that Machain had been in the house where Camarena
- had been tortured. This evidence, he said, "does not reach even
- the minimum level to take the case to trial." It was known that
- Machain often visited the house where the murder was committed to
- give the drug traffickers injections of vitamins and "youth
- serum."
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- Prosecution witnesses against Machain were paid and given immunity
- by the US Drug Enforcement Agency, thus discrediting their
- testimony. Machain himself was kidnapped from Mexico to face trial
- in the US. His kidnapping led to the controversial US Supreme
- Court decision that it is legal for the US to ignore extradition
- laws and kidnap anyone from any other country to face trial on
- charges brought against them by the US.
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- Seven other people have been prosecuted in US courts for
- Camarena's murder, and more than a dozen have been declared guilty
- in Mexico. Ruben Zuno Arce, brother-in-law of former Mexican
- president Luis Echevarria, will face trial for alleged involvement
- in the case. (edlp 12/15/92 from various wire services)
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- Immediately after the Judge's determination Machain was deported
- and flown back to Mexico. (WBAI radio, 12/15/92)
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