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URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v10/n1023/a07.html
Newshawk: Kirk
Webpage: http://www.contracostatimes.com/columns/ci_16810108
Pubdate: Sun, 12 Dec 2010
Source: Contra Costa Times (CA)
Copyright: 2010 Bay Area News Group
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Website: http://www.contracostatimes.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/96
Author: Jaime Richards, Oakland Tribune columnist

It's been 25 years since DEA agent Enrique Camarena was captured, tortured and slain.

Camarena, the man we honor each year with Red Ribbon Week, was working in Mexico, fighting a Mexican drug cartel.

The cartel won.  A quarter-century later, they're still winning.

They're winning because Americans have to have their drugs.  And as long as there's a demand, the drug lords will find a way to make a fortune meeting it.

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