The World - News from June 13, 1985
Three of Mexico’s top four drug barons ordered the killing of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique S. Camarena after he disclosed, under torture, that Washington considered the three “dangerous narcotics traffickers,” a witness said in Mexico City. Francisco Javier Tejeda Jaramillo, 32, who has been charged with murder in the case, told authorities that Rafael Caro Quintero, Miguel Felix Gallardo and Ernesto Fonseca ordered the American smothered to death at a house owned by Caro Quintero.
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