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<text id=91TT1240>
<title>
June 10, 1991: World Notes:Mexico
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
June 10, 1991 Evil
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 43
World Notes
MEXICO
Life in the Posh Lane
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<p> For most inmates, prison is a spartan experience. But not for
Mexican drug baron Oliverio Chavez Araujo, 33, who has been
linked to Colombia's Medellin drug cartel and has been
incarcerated since 1986 at the state prison in Matamoros. After
members of a rival drug gang shot Chavez in the jaw and nearly
blinded him three weeks ago, his bodyguards staged a violent
takeover of the prison; 18 people died. Once in control of the
complex, Chavez continued to make drug deals from his cell,
which was outfitted with cellular phones and a fax machine.
Though state police ringed the prison, he managed to bring in
doctors and undergo surgery for his wounds.
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<p> After five hours of negotiations with assistant attorney
general Federico Ponce Rojas, Chavez surrendered last week and
was flown to Mexico City aboard a government jet. Earlier, in
a letter addressed to the New York Times, Chavez said he had
been the target of a paid assassin, and would provide evidence
implicating agents of the Mexican Federal Judicial Police, who
oversee antidrug efforts. Law-enforcement officials in Mexico
and the U.S. have long complained about corruption among members
of the federal police, who have been accused of murder, rape and
other abuses, including the 1985 torture and killing of Enrique
Camarena, an American drug-enforcement agent. After Chavez's
surrender, authorities arrested several top prison and police
officials.
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