Dea Agent Kiki Camarena was killed in Mexico in 1985. years. His alleged killer is now in the US

Dea Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena disappeared in 1985. in the year, soon after he helped to insert $ 1 billion in Mexico.

We headed for lunch with my wife Mika, 7. February 1985, Camarena, then 37 years, It is surrounded by five armed men who threw it in the car and accelerated, according to drug execution administration. He was because of the transfer back to the US only three weeks later, said Dea.

About a month after it disappeared, body found At a distance ranch about 60 miles, according to DEA. He was tortured.

Almost four decades later, his alleged murderer, the lord of drugs Rafael Caro Quinteromoves toward the US together with 28 other prisoners She asked the US government, the Ministry of Justice confirmed Thursday evening.

“This moment is extremely personal for men and women who believe that Caro Quintero is responsible for the brutal torture and killing of the Dea Special Agent Enrique ‘Camarena. This said Administrator Deek S. Maltz.

“Today, he sends a message to each cartel, every criminal circuit, no matter how long it takes, no matter how much it will be, no matter how much it will be, no matter how much it will be, no matter how much it will happen to you.”

The father of three sons serving their land

Camarena, father of three sons, lived in Guadalajara, Mexico, with family who works as a secret of the agent, his son told the news of the CBS In 2017 Interview. There is a four-year-old on the trail of the largest marijuana and cocaine.

He was with DEA ​​for 11 years after serving the American Marine Corps, and as fire police, officer and Deputy Imperial County in Calexico, California, where he grew up, according to DEA. Camarena was born in Mexico, Mexico and moved to the United States when he was nine years old.

He married his high school darling, and together with his young family, moved to Mexico in 1981. years.

At that time Guadalajara Kartel leader Quintero He was one of the primary suppliers of heroin, cocaine and marijuana in the US in the late 1970s. He blamed Camaren for 1984 searches. Mexican authorities on Marijuana plantation, Rancho Bufalo, who disturbed the job.

Dea said at that time that it was the biggest attack on drugs ever.

The retaliation is believed that Camarena was kidnapped in Guadalajari, allegedly on the Caro Quintero order.

The Camarena’s son, who shares the same name as his father, Enrique, was 11 when his father disappeared. He remembered a few hours after he disappeared, the agents flooded the family home.

“Within about five or six hours, there are a dozen two dozen agents,” Enrique told CBS news in 2017. Years. But he believed his father would return home.

“Well, your father Superman,” Enrique said. “So you mean, we’ll see him. It’ll be fine.”

Enrique and his brothers then rushed from Mexico to the United States, which he remembers the agent who picked him up and carries him out of his living room to wait. He would never see his father again.

Family received a call From the then President Ronald Reagan after the Cameran body was identified. The Cameran woman also met with Reagan in the White House.

The week of red ribbon wears his memory forward

Shortly after his death, members of his hometown of Calexico began wearing red ribbons to mark his victim and launch Camarena Club in his honor, according to DEA. Hundreds of club members wore red ribbons and committed to lead drugs without drugs.

1985. The members of the club presented the “proclamation” Camarena Club “until then the first lady Nancy Reagan, leading him to national attention. 1988. Congress was formally established Red ribbon weekwhich stimulates parents, educators and enterprises to promote the lifestyle without drugs. Enrique S. Camarena Education Foundation, which provides scholarships with high school seniors was launched.

A memorial It was created in Camaren’s part in Los Angeles in 2014. years.

His son Enrique, which in 2014 became a judge in San Diego, told the news of the CBS to carry his father’s lesson in the courtroom. “He learned us to start everyone with everyone.”

Carter Evans and

Andres Triay

contributed to this report.