Enrique "Kiki" Camarena Salazar is a US intelligence officer in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration. In February 1985, Camarena was kidnapped by drug traffickers in Guadalajara, Mexico. He was interrogated under torture and murder. The three leaders of the Guadalajara drug gang were eventually convicted in Mexico for the Camarena murder. The US investigation of the Camarena murder resulted in three more trials in Los Angeles against other Mexican citizens involved in the crime. The case continues to disrupt US-Mexico relations, most recently when one of the three convicted traffickers, Rafael Caro Quintero, was released from Mexican prison in 2013 .
Birth name | Enrique Camarena Salazar |
Nickname(s) | "Kike" (also spelled Quique) (Spanish), "Kiki" (English) |
Born | July 26, 1947, Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico |
Died | February 9, 1985, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico |
Service/branch | (1972–1975), Drug Enforcement Administration (1975–1985), Calexico Police Department 1975–1977 |
Years of service | 1972-1975 |
Rank | Lance Corporal (United States Marine Corps) Senior Police Officer II (Calexico Police Dept.) Special Agent (ICNTF) Special Agent (DEA) |
Law Enforcement Officer Kiki Camarena was born on July 26, 1947 in Mexico (He dies at the age of 37, on February 9, 1985).
Mexican-American guy who worked for the US Drug Enforcement Administration as an undercover agent. He was kidnapped by police officials working for drug lord Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo when his true identity was uncovered, and he was tortured and executed.
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Kiki Camarena was born in the Zodiac sign Leo (The Lion), and 1947 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Pig (豬).
He was born in Mexicali and spent two years in the US Marine Corps in the 1970s.
He won a posthumous Administrator's Award of Distinction, the highest honor bestowed by the Drug Enforcement Administration, for his efforts as an undercover agent.
Mika, his wife, and their three sons survived him.
In the 1990 miniseries Drug Wars: The Camarena Story, actor Movie Actor Steven Bauer played him.
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