UK - Mexico drugs: How one DEA killing began a brutal war

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BBC News

7 February 2012 Last updated at 16:47
By Will Grant BBC News, Guadalajara

Twenty seven years ago, the kidnap, torture and murder of a US Drug Enforcement Administration agent by Mexican drug traffickers sparked one of the biggest manhunts the US government has ever launched in North America. It also offered an ominous warning of things to come.

For Camarena's former boss, however, the extent of the violence currently experienced in Mexico is simply evidence that the lessons from the mid-1980s, about breaking down the links between state institutions and the drug traffickers, were never learned.

"It is tragic that [the violence] has transformed such a beautiful country into a place where people are afraid to venture out of their homes and afraid to travel between cities. That's not Mexico," says Kuykendall.

"Unfortunately Kiki's death didn't have the impact it should have had."

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the links between state institutions and the drug traffickers, were never learned.

That's because the link IS the state.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_and_Contras_cocaine_trafficking_in_the_US