Editing Death squad (section)

=====During the Cold War=====
{{Main|Mexican Dirty War}}
During the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, death squads continued to be used against anti-PRI activists, both [[Marxism|Marxists]] and [[Social conservatism|social conservatives]]. One example of this is the 1968 [[Tlatelolco massacre]], in which an anti-regime protest rally was attacked by security forces in [[Mexico City]]. After this event, paramilitary groups like "[[Halcones (paramilitary group)|Los Halcones]]" (The Hawks) and the "Brigada blanca" (White brigade) were used to attack, hunt and exterminate political dissidents.

Allegations have been made by both journalists and American law enforcement of collusion between senior PRI statesmen and the Mexican [[drug cartel]]s. It has even been alleged that, under PRI rule, no drug traffickers were ever successful without the permission of the Mexican State. If the same drug trafficker fell from favor, however, [[Law enforcement in Mexico|Mexican law enforcement]] would be ordered to move against their operation, as happened to [[Pablo Acosta Villarreal]] in 1987. Drug lords like [[Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo]], [[Rafael Caro Quintero]], and [[Juan José Esparragoza Moreno]] would use the [[Dirección Federal de Seguridad]] as a death squad to kill [[Drug Enforcement Administration]] agents and [[Federal Judicial Police]] commanders who investigated or destroyed drug plantations in the 1970s and 1980s in Mexico. One example was the murder (after torture) of DEA agent [[Kiki Camarena]], who was killed in [[Guadalajara, Jalisco|Guadalajara]] for his part in the Rancho Bufalo raid. The DFS also organized death squads to kill journalists including [[Manuel Buendía]] who was killed by orders of DFS chief José-Antonio Zorrilla.