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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
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<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>
</body>
</article>
</text>