Pubdate: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 Source: Wire Reports (Waco TribuneHerald) Contact: Drug lords hire exGI's El Paso, Texas Mexican drug lords are hiring former U.S. soldiers to protect them and train them in the use of hightech equipment, U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes told the El Paso Times for Monday's editions. "With the large sums of money that drug cartels have, they are more and more able to enlist the services of what we have traditionally considered soldiers of fortune," said Reyes, DTexas, a member of the House National Security Committee. Former Special Forces troops and other experts in military technique can provide extensive training to the drug lords in escape and evasion techniques and the use of equipment such as nightvision goggles, said Reyes, a former highranking official in the U.S. Border Patrol. (