Besides Kiki Camarena, Other DEA Agents Also Died In Mexico
By Sol Prendido 10/13/2023 07:16:00 PM
"Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat
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For decades, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has deployed personnel in Mexico to conduct operations to curb drug trafficking.
On March 5, 1985, the body of Enrique Camarena, a special agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) who had been kidnapped during the first days of February 1985, was found in a rural area of La Angostura in Michoacán.
Kiki, as the officer was also known, had spent more than four years in Mexico infiltrating a meticulous network of corruption and drug trafficking headed at the time by Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo and Rafael Caro Quintero: the Guadalajara Cartel.
True to the values of the US anti-drug agency, Kiki Camarena came close to dismantling one of the most important lucrative businesses for the criminal organization until his kidnapping and murder thwarted his plans and unleashed a diplomatic crisis between Mexico and the United States.
Almost four decades after his murder, the stars and stripes country continues to demand the extradition of Rafael Caro Quintero - accused of torturing and ordering the murder of the special agent. However, the legal defenders of the so-called Narco of Narcos have managed to promote several appeals to stop the process.
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https://www.borderlandbeat.com/2023/10/besides-kiki-camarena-other-dea-agents.html
Kiki Camarena
