DEA
Das Akronym DEA steht im Allgemeinen für die us-amerikanische Drug Enforcement Administration.
Aktionen
- Viktor Bout
- Monzer al-Kassar
- Amado Carrillo Fuentes (December 17, 1956 – July 3, 1997)
- Mexican drug lord. He had seized control of the Juárez Cartel after assassinating his boss Rafael Aguilar Guajardo. He became known as "El Señor de Los Cielos" (Lord of the Skies) because of the large fleet of jets he used to transport drugs. He was also known for laundering money via Colombia to finance his huge fleet of planes. The pressure to capture Carrillo intensified among U.S. and Mexican authorities, and perhaps for this reason, Carrillo underwent facial plastic surgery and liposuction of his abdomen to change his appearance on July 3, 1997 at Santa Mónica Hospital in Mexico City. However, during the nine-hour operation, he apparently died of complications caused either by a medication or a malfunctioning respirator. Two of Carrillo's bodyguards were in the operating room during the procedure. On November 7, 1997, the two physicians who performed the surgery on Fuentes were found dead, encased in concrete inside steel drums, with their bodies showing signs of torture.
- Carrillo allegedly had ties to Mexico's former Commissioner of the INCD (National Institute to Combat Drugs), Gutierrez-Rebollo.
- Ochoa
- In early 1994 Ochoa traveled to Juárez to look up his old friend to ask for help in crossing a 28-ton shipment of cocaine into the U.S. In June, Ochoa was arrested while waiting inside the U.S. Immigration office located at the Paso del Norte Bridge to pick up an entry visa he had illegally “bought” through a man he thought was an American drug dealer, but who in reality was a DEA informant. The DEA had surveillance videotapes of a six-ton shipment of cocaine being crossed into the U.S. through the bridge in several vehicles. The DEA also had audiotapes of the meetings in Juarez between the informant and Ochoa, where all the logistics of the crossings had been ironed out.
Varia
Das Kürzel DEA steht auch - in ironisierender Absicht - für die prohibitionskritische Scheinorganisation Drug Education Agency.
Weblinks und Literatur
Videos
- Captura de Monzer al-Kassar. Operación de la DEA You Tube 44:11
- Inside the DEA 2015 (Capture of al Kassar, engl. 1:05:36
- DEA Museum (*1999) Arlington, Va.
- DEA Big Drug Bust in Georgia, Operation "Four Horsemen" 1:52 (2011)
- La história de Amado Carrillo Fuentes 9:13