U.S. Government Returns Stolen Mexican Art

In November 1993 the media reported that the United States Government recently has returned to Mexican authorities eight lithographs stolen from the Mexico City home of Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo in 1989 in a ceremony last week at the Museum of Fine Arts. The lithographs were valued at between $500,000 and $1 million. According to U.S. officials in June 1991, the prints were confiscated after an employee at the Principal Casa de Cambio money exchange house in McAllen, Texas, posing as an art dealer, tried to sell them for $20,000 to a U.S. Customs Service agent?[more]