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VyaiUCI Ulll otwisted legacy has tragic endBY MARY MORENOTHE MONITORMcALLEN — Guillermo Gonzalez Calderoni’s enemies wouldn’t let him forget they wanted him dead.Hector Berrellez, a former Drug Enforcement Administration supervisor and Calderoni’s close friend, said death threats from traffickers and the family of former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari were a constant part of Calderoni’s life.“He would receive information that people were mad at him in Mexico and wanted to kill him,’’ Berrellez said.Calderoni took the threats seriously, always traveling with armed bodyguards,Berrellez said.Someone finally got to the former CALDERONI director of the MexicanFederal Judicial Police on Wednesday morning. Outside his attorney's office while sitting in his Mercedes-Benz, Calderoni was executed with a single gunshot to the head McAllen police on Friday didn’t have any suspects in the case and said commenting on a motive would be specula-tivc.Police have a wide range of motives from which to choose. Calderoni helped capture some of Mexico’s most notorious drug kingpins, but he also couldn't shake allegations he aided other traffickers, including Juan Garcia Abrego, former head of the Gulf Cartel and Calderoni’s childhood friend. Calderoni also made enemies with public allegations that tied the highest governmental offices in Mexico to drug trafficking.“I am not surprised Calderoni finally met his fate,’’ said Peter Lupsha, a former professor who stud-- ied drug trafficking on the border for more than two decades. “He certainly deserved a violent end. He was a master triple agent always working for himself while fooling his three mas-[ ters: the MexicanGovernment, DEA, and numerous trafficking organizations — always playing each for his own ends, gaining promotions, wealth, protection and immunity from prosecution.’’Calderoni, dubbed the , Eliot Ness of Mexico, alwaysdenied protecting drug lords, but in an interview with PBS’ Frontline acknowledged drug i traffickers put Mexicanpolice officers in a dangerous position.“Even though a coman-dante is part of the government, in Mexico that doesn’tPLEASE SEE CALDERONI, C11
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Sun, Feb 09, 2003
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