Working undercover, he sought to disrupt operations of large-scale marijuana plantations all over Mexico. Kiki Camarena went straight to work in Guadalajara. President Ronald Reagan had declared his “War on Drugs” and DEA agents were sent to do battle all across the world, regardless if the other country wanted them there. His mother even tried to dissuade him from taking it, but he was set, saying, “Even if I’m only one person, I can make a difference.”īy the 1980s, drug production and smuggling was at an all-time high in Central and Latin America, and the United States fought back the way it knew best how: by extending her laws beyond her borders. It was in June 1974 when he found his true calling as a Special Agent for the Drug Enforcement Agency.
He would graduate high school and join the United States Marine Corps, serving for three years.Īfter his stint the Marines, Camarena worked in Calexico as a fireman and police officer while attending Imperial Valley College for an associate’s degree. Camarena was nine years old when their family moved across to Calexico and called it home. Mexicali sits right on the border: across the street is the United States and the town of Calexico, California. Kiki Camarena was born in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico. Enrique “Kiki” Camarena Salazar would never be seen alive again. He is surrounded, gagged, and shoved into a beige Volkswagen. A man walked down the street just outside the DEA office in Guadalajara, Mexico, to have lunch with his wife.
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