Drug lord must face justice:

Lat/Am

The US Drug Enforcement Administration said Monday that a veteran Mexican drug lord who denied killing an undercover DEA agent must face justice in the United States for the murder.

co-founder of the now defunct Guadalajara drug cartel, insisted in an interview published Sunday by the Mexican magazine Proceso that he did not kill DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena in 1985.

DEA spokesman Rusty Payne said the agency was unaware of the interview and would not respond directly to it.

But, Payne said, Caro Quintero “is one of the biggest fugitives in the history of DEA” and “we strongly believe he needs to come to the US to face justice.”

“He needs to answer for his crime,” he said. “We take this very personally.”

Caro Quintero was released from a Mexican prison in 2013 after serving 28 years of a 40-year sentence for the torture and murder of Camarena, whose Mexican pilot, Alfredo Zavala, was also killed. (AFP)

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