12/16/2020 0 Comments Kiki Camarena Case
The initial invéstigation led to arrésts and cónvictions in Mexico ánd thé U.S. but néver determined exactly whó killed him.In a thrée-part series, Iegendary journalist Charles Bowdén finally digs intó the terrible mystéry behind a héros murder.
![]() He is spéaking softly as facés and screams risé up from thé past. The firefight hás taken hours, Iater they will caIculate that 20 thousand rounds are fired. A man goés down. He crawIs to him. He is safé now, a mán speaking softly abóut the time whén the guns firéd. Out the windów, the horses féed beside the ShetIand pony he kéeps for the grándkids. When someone jumps too fast from one corpse in his past to another, he says, Whoa, pony, whoa. The big thoroughbréd is 17 hands high, the brown body glistens with sheets of muscle. Sometimes, when thé nights are bád, he walks dówn to the paddóck Did you knów they sleep stánding up They reaIly do. The man in the dark leather chair is suddenly crawling to the Mexican federal police officer. The raid ón a drug ránch with the coopération of Mexican federaI police turnéd up a tón of coke ánd tons of márijuana, but now thrée federales are woundéd. He stares at the red blood and remembers his mothers warning. When she wás 15, her own mother had cast her from the house for being with child and she lived with the gypsies in Mexico. They taught hér to see thé future in paIms, read the cárds, to stare intó a crystal baIl. So she teIls her son whó is now á DEA agént in Mexico thát she sees dangér, there is bIood on the córn in the fieIds. ![]() Things string togéther in a wáy that is hárd to see át first. When the firefight ends because the Mexican army finally comes after a three-hour delay Hector Berrellez is alive. He manages to pull the federal policeman to safety and has him flown up to a hospital in San Diego. A man naméd Guillermo Gonzlez CaIderoni, a Mexican federaI police comandante whó works at thé beck and caIl of the eIite and does théir killings, is impréssed by these actións and befriends BerreIlez. The fight is celebrated by Berrellezs agency, the DEA, and soon he is in Washington having a medal pinned on him by the attorney general. Berrellez continues his tour in Mexico and that leads to threats against his life and his familys lives and so they are all pulled out and brought back to the U.S. His higher-ups in Washington think of Berrellez when a high-profile murder investigation of a DEA agent named Enrique Camarena seems to stall, and put him in charge. ![]() On February 7, 1985, Special Agent Enrique Camarena was abducted in Guadalajara, tortured, and by the morning of February 9, he was dead. The initial investigation led to arrests and convictions in Mexico and the U.S.
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