Kiki Camarena

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Camarena and the second or maternal family name is Salazar.
Enrique Camarena
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Born
Enrique Camarena Salazar

July 26, 1947
Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico
DiedFebruary 9, 1985(1985-02-09) (aged 37)
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Other namesKiki[a]
EducationCalexico High School
SpouseMika Camarena
Police career
Department
Service years1970–1985
Military service
Allegiance United States
Service / branch United States Marine Corps
Years of service1965–1970
Rank Lance corporal

Enrique "Kiki" Camarena Salazar (July 26, 1947 – February 9, 1985) was a Mexican-American intelligence officer for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). In February 1985, Camarena was kidnapped by corrupt police officers hired by the Guadalajara Cartel. He was interrogated under torture and murdered. Three leaders of the cartel were eventually convicted in Mexico for Camarena's murder. The U.S. investigation into Camarena's murder led to ten more trials in Los Angeles for other Mexican nationals involved in the crime. The case continues to trouble U.S.–Mexican relations, most recently when Rafael Caro Quintero, one of the three convicted traffickers, was released from a Mexican prison in 2013. Caro Quintero again was captured by Mexican forces in July 2022.

Several journalists, historians, former DEA and CIA agents, and Mexican police officers have written that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was complicit in Camarena's murder, because Camarena discovered CIA involvement in drug trafficking operations in Mexico, which were used to fund the Contras in Nicaragua.[3] The CIA has denied the allegations.[4][5]

  1. ^ Sifuentes, Hervey. "Proclamarán Semana del Listón Rojo en honor a 'Kike' Camarena" Archived June 26, 2020, at the Wayback Machine. Zócalo Saltillo. Retrieved February 27, 2012.
  2. ^ "Kiki and the History of Red Ribbon Week" Archived November 4, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. Drug Enforcement Administration. Retrieved January 20, 2013.
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