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Has anyone seen 'Drug Wars: The Camarena Story?' I saw it about 20 years ago for the first time and unlike Narcos: Mexico, this one made me frustrated and pissed at the Mexican government for what they made the Americans go through in trying to solve Kiki's murder.Not saying it's better, obviously it's a lower budget series, but even though I already knew the story, it still managed to incite something Narcos didn't, for whatever reason, maybe I was just younger.It's 4 and a half hours long and in english, below are links to it on YouTube if anyone is interested in checking it out.Part 1:::Part 2::::Part 3:::.
Regarding Calderoni and Caro Quintero:Kevin Shipp 1.8.18 Intelligence Hour interview:documentary of Hector Berrellez (DEA) search for the killers of Enrique KIKI CamarenaAudio interview with DEA Hector Berrellez.I heard he was allowed to bring millions in cash into the U.S. Was part of his agreement as an informant.
He told Hector Berrellez DEA that he was getting transferred a month before it happened. At his debriefing in Washington, Hector said that the Attorney Gen. Took no notes of the meeting and simply asked if he had seen a government employee load the drugs into planes. Hector said no, only the cutouts or assets. That was it.His career ended and he retired in 1996 after checking into a blank schedule for a year. He gave interviews and spoke of Calderoni, but the government threatened do extradite him to Mexico where he was wanted for the kidnap of Dr.
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Machain, who was stuffed through a hole in the border fence,Hector's son committed suicide and under suspicious circumstances, so hector hesitated to speak again until 2013 when Caro Quintero was released.In Forbes Magazine, Hector stated that two $4billion + bank accounts of Caro Quintero's money were never seized,Dea agent Michael Levine says that Attorney General Edwin Meese personally warned the president of Mexico that Levine was DEA, blowing his cover and put him in danger. Levine had the President of Mexico on a 15 tonnes per month drug agreement using the president's body guard as a intermediary.Phil Jordan (DEA EPIC) said that he had interacted with Camarena in Mexico at one point and he was followed by DFS agents everywhere they went.In the book 'Down By The River' Phil Jordan says that he seized a load of cash; $22 million at the airport. He then received a phone call from the top of the DOJ telling him to release the man, give his cash back and allow him to continue on his way.The rot goes to the top folks. The president is involved. Both here and in MexicoI think there is simply a drug department in the U.S. Treasury department.
When you win the presidential election, they notify you of the slush fund and let you keep the money. Drug Wars: The Camarena Story is a 1990 TV mini-series based on Elaine Shannon’s book Desperados and the Time magazine article of the same name.
It was directed by Brian Gibson and starred Steven Bauer, Miguel Ferrer, Benicio del Toro, Treat Williams and Craig T. It was the second most watched NBC mini-series of the year following The Kennedys.PLOTFact-based story of undercover DEA agent Enrique Camarena who, while stationed in Guadalajara, uncovered a massive marijuana operation in Northern Mexico that led to his death and a remarkable investigation of corruption within the Mexican government.
He was known as “El Padrino” — the Godfather — and, as co-founder of the once-dominant Guadalajara drug cartel, Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo reigned over Mexico’s multibillion-dollar narco-commerce with all the ruthlessness and aplomb of the fictional Don Corleone.The former street cop and bodyguard turned-drug kingpin counted police commanders and politicians among his protectors and supplicants.But eventually, Gallardo went too far. The international outrage following the 1985 murder in Mexico of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent, Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, eventually led to the fall of Gallardo and his close associates and the splintering of their nationwide criminal network.The fallout of Camarena’s murder — and the unraveling of Gallardo’s cartel — continues to be felt in Mexico to this day, influencing law enforcement, politics and how modern cartels operate. Even though Gallardo was arrested decades ago, the case made the news again this week when a Mexican federal court sentenced Gallardo to 37 years in prison for the murder of Camarena and a Mexican pilot, Alfredo Zavala. As part of Wednesday’s court decision, Gallardo also was ordered to make the equivalent of $1.18 million in reparation payments, presumably to the families of the victims.Gallardo, now in his early 70s, has been in Mexican custody since 1989, when intense pressure from U.S.
Authorities led Mexican authorities to arrest him.But the kingpin’s case had dragged on for decades in Mexican tribunals amid a plethora of legal maneuvers and a court ruling throwing out a previous 40-year sentence against Gallardo. It is said to be one of the longest judicial proceedings in Mexican criminal history. Several more years of appeals are possible, authorities say, even though Gallardo has already served the bulk of his term.The official sentencing comes 32 years after Camarena — the DEA agent and former Calexico cop and U.S. Marine — was brazenly snatched in broad daylight in Guadalajara. Camarena was kidnapped while walking along a street to meet his wife for lunch. Zavala, who was assisting Camarena in his undercover investigations, also disappeared.
(Rick Tulsky / Los Angeles Times)The Camarena case, which has inspired films, books and television series, put the public spotlight on the organized and brutal nature of Mexican drug-trafficking rings. The intense law enforcement focus ultimately contributed to altering the makeup of the drug gangs, but did not come close to putting an end to the illegal cross-border commerce.In a sense, the takedown of the Guadalajara cartel set a template for the Mexican drug wars that have raged to this day — often with much more bloodshed and brutality than in the heyday of Gallardo and his henchmen.After Camarena disappeared, an irate Reagan administration pressed the Mexican government to find him. Customs officials all but shut down the nearly 2,000-mile-long border, triggering a binational crisis. It was a low point in U.S.-Mexico relations perhaps unmatched until President Trump took office in January amid threats to build a border wall, slap a tariff on Mexican imports and carry out large-scale deportations of Mexican citizens in the U.S. Illegally.The bodies of Camarena and Zavala were found, a month after their February 1985 disappearances, near a ranch in the western state of Michoacan.
Their remains showed signs of torture.The subsequent manhunt for the killers was called the largest in DEA history. Suspicion immediately fell on the Guadalajara cartel and its three principal figures: Gallardo, Ernesto “Don Neto” Fonseca and Rafael Caro Quintero, all giants of the Mexican demimonde, subjects of corridos (ballads) and legends.In his undercover work, Camarena had developed an extensive informant network that led to large-scale seizures of marijuana and destruction of pot plantations in northern Mexico, authorities say. His murder was called payback for the damage done to the Guadalajara mob. Mexican authorities soon rounded up Fonseca and Caro Quintero, but Gallardo — reportedly protected by authorities — was not arrested until 1989.Though Gallardo remains in prison, Fonseca was transferred to house arrest in 2016 under terms granted to elderly prisoners with health problems.Caro Quintero was released from prison in 2013 on a legal technicality, to the dismay of U.S. Authorities — who have offered a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to his capture or conviction. Both Mexican and U.S.
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Officials are seeking Caro Quintero.In 2016, Caro Quintero gave an interview from hiding to Mexico’s Proceso magazine denying any role in Camarena’s murder and rejecting reports that he had returned to the drug world. Amid continuing demand for drugs in the United States, experts say, the destruction of the Guadalajara cartel resulted in a fragmenting of the market and the emergence of distinct regional cartels.Among them was the Sinaloa cartel of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and other criminal mobs in Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez and elsewhere.
All built on the sophistication of the Guadalajara cartel, with its close ties to South American cocaine producers. The evolving U.S. Appetite for heroin, amphetamines and other illicit substances has been a boost for the trafficking enterprise.Under pressure from U.S. Authorities, Mexican officials have taken down one drug lord after another. Critics question, however, whether the “kingpin strategy” has exacerbated the problem, amid escalating national homicide rates. Violent junior sicarios, or hit men, and other would-be successors now regularly battle for leadership after the incarceration or murders of their bosses.The arrest of Guzman, and his extradition this year from Mexico to the United States, is a case in point. His absence and the subsequent leadership void have spurred violent clashes among competing blocs fighting for control of Guzman’s fractured empire.
(Associated Press)Mexican drug gangs since the 1980s have diversified into other fields — including extortion, kidnapping, human trafficking and the forced takeover of legitimate businesses.Like their predecessors in the Guadalajara cartel, Mexico’s current narco-leaders maintain financial and social ties to police and elected lawmakers. The nexus among gangs, law enforcement and politicians — and the resulting impunity for many criminals and corrupt officials — continues to bedevil reform efforts in Mexico.For U.S. Anti-drug authorities, a key lesson of the Camarena killing was the need for an immediate and robust response to any menace to its personnel.
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