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Article: Chuy Carrillo is dead and living somewhere far, far away; a true story about how our government destroyed one of its own.(former drug enforcement agent)
- Article from:
- Esquire
- Article date:
- October 1, 1997
- Author:
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THEY DON'T HAVE THE LOOK OF PEOPLE YOU NORMALLY SKIN ALIVE. AS CARLOS CARRILLO holds the big black-and-white print of his parents, he smiles warmly and explains that it was taken on their wedding day. In the picture, his father beams in a rented tuxedo, and his mother glows from within the white corona of a massive wedding dress. The photograph is more than thirty years old, and back then Carlos's dad, Jesus, was just starting out. He'd been to Vietnam and would soon enter the Border Patrol. Jesusita, his new wife, looks like a movie star. She was a singer with offers to go to Mexico City and take up a professional career, but she decided to raise a family. As the ...