1 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:18,200 ♪ ♪ 2 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:35,880 REPORTER (over TV): Shake this square world and blast off for Kicksville. 3 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:38,960 NIXON: Public enemy number one is drug abuse. 4 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:41,240 NANCY: Just say no. 5 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:43,640 REAGAN: Halting the drug problem in America is like 6 00:02:43,640 --> 00:02:46,760 carrying water in a sieve. 7 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:51,920 BUSH: Take my word for it, this scourge will stop. 8 00:02:51,920 --> 00:02:53,400 REPORTER 2 (over TV): There's now an understanding that the 9 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:56,400 war on drugs was an abject failure. 10 00:02:57,600 --> 00:02:59,200 MAN: You have to stop and ask yourself; 11 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:01,200 how did we get here? 12 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:03,280 TRUMP: We will build a wall. 13 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:23,600 MAN: We buy grass in Mexico, 14 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:25,080 the most important thing is your contact. 15 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:42,240 REPORTER (over TV): This is the real action, the pot party. 16 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:46,440 The trippers, the grasshoppers, 17 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:48,760 the hip ones flying high as a kite. 18 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:53,360 TURNER: You had a society that, 19 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:55,960 since the 60s, had sort of been gradually moving toward 20 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:58,520 more of a drug subculture. 21 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:03,000 REPORTER (over TV): In time, the continued use of marijuana 22 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:05,920 causes psychic and physiological changes. 23 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:07,800 Shame, arrest, prison. 24 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:11,000 TURNER: So you had an increase in marijuana use that reached 25 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:15,920 an apex in 1979 when you had one in nine high school seniors 26 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:18,880 using marijuana on a daily basis. 27 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:20,840 ♪ You just gonna break my heart ♪ 28 00:06:20,840 --> 00:06:23,280 ♪ My fallen angel ♪ 29 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:29,120 TURNER: It made the government realize that the efforts in Mexico 30 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:31,800 need to be reinvigorated. 31 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:46,440 BROWN: I initially went to Mexico to work on the 32 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:48,920 marijuana cultivation and trafficking. 33 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:56,640 The state of Sinaloa was the heart of 34 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:58,960 marijuana cultivation for decades, 35 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:00,440 if not centuries. 36 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:07,480 Higher up in the Sierra Madres was a climate temperature, 37 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:11,960 water and sunlight, made it ideal for growing marijuana. 38 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:23,120 ♪ ♪ 39 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:26,160 Our assignment was to work with the Mexican Federal Police. 40 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:30,160 But it was a very frustrating time for what we were doing. 41 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:34,160 We saw the continued growth of organized criminal groups that 42 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:36,520 now are called cartels. 43 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:39,440 It was becoming hotter. 44 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:41,240 It was a hot environment. 45 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:55,200 GRILLO: Sinaloa to the Mexican drug cartels is like 46 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:57,360 Sicily is to the Italian mafia. 47 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:02,480 But around that time, you saw Sinaloans relocating their 48 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:07,040 operations to Mexico's second biggest city, Guadalajara. 49 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:11,560 A really strategic city, much closer to the center of power. 50 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:21,800 This is really when the Guadalajara cartel came together. 51 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:27,560 It was a group of Mexican drug traffickers saying, 52 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:30,040 okay, let's share our resources. 53 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:36,640 ESQUIVEL: One of the pioneers was Rafael Caro Quintero. 54 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:47,200 He made what now is called the Guadalajara cartel. 55 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:50,600 Using the roads of Guadalajara to send drugs 56 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:53,560 to the United States, especially marijuana. 57 00:08:55,560 --> 00:08:59,160 BROWN: He came from a small village in Sinaloa. 58 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:02,240 A street thug, moved up pretty quickly. 59 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:05,400 Smart though, for somebody with a very limited education. 60 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:06,760 He saw an opportunity. 61 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:53,720 BROWN: They pretended to be sophisticated, 62 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:55,760 and they were really just thugs. 63 00:09:56,600 --> 00:10:01,080 They ruled by brutality, by killing people who disagreed. 64 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:14,480 KUYKENDALL: Well this picture was taken of me in September of 1982, 65 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:18,280 standing in the middle of a 200 acre field of marijuana, 66 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:21,520 seven‐foot stalks, mature marijuana. 67 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:25,000 I'm Jaime Kuykendall. 68 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:27,440 I was the DEA agent from the time that it was created, 69 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:30,040 July the 1st, 1973. 70 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:34,800 The job that I was given in Guadalajara, Mexico 71 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:38,920 was to gather as much 72 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:42,080 intelligence as possible and 73 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:45,480 then give that information to the United States government. 74 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:51,440 There were three agents there when I got there. 75 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:55,200 One of them was Enrique Camarena. 76 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:03,480 Everyone called him Kiki. 77 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:06,600 Kiki was born in Mexico, became a naturalized United States citizen. 78 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:10,240 For a DEA agent, he was a family man, 79 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:13,960 and this is a picture of Kiki and his wife. 80 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:16,720 Her nickname is Mika. 81 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:19,680 CAMARENA: Kiki was very excited. 82 00:11:19,680 --> 00:11:22,240 He couldn't wait to get a case out there. 83 00:11:31,560 --> 00:11:33,640 CAMARENA: Guadalajara was beautiful. 84 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:36,640 The weather was perfect. 85 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:39,640 The people were very friendly. 86 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:46,360 Kiki was very good at befriending people. 87 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:49,440 They knew he was Mexican. 88 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:52,240 He would speak their language. 89 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:55,720 (crowd cheering) 90 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:04,200 BROWN: He was an old‐time cop. 91 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:06,640 He believes in justice on the street and going out and, and 92 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:09,200 working the case. 93 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:14,040 KUYKENDALL: He enjoyed matching wits with the bad guys. 94 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:19,320 CAMARENA: Kiki's job was to locate these traffickers, 95 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:24,480 know exactly who they were and where they hung out. 96 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:29,760 And so the way he could get a case is by finding his informants. 97 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:43,200 ♪ ♪ 98 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:44,920 KUYKENDALL: Well they stopped at a beer truck 99 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:48,280 'cause they were getting kind of thirsty. 100 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:51,880 And uh, asked him if he'd noticed anything unusual 101 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:55,520 in the area, any extra activity. 102 00:12:55,520 --> 00:13:00,760 He said, "Well, over in the distance there, there's a farm." 103 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:04,080 And he said, "I don't know what's going on over there, 104 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:06,360 but they've got a lot of workers 'cause they buy a lot of beer 105 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:08,840 for me and I can't get in, every time I get there, 106 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:12,800 they send somebody out to pick up some beer." 107 00:13:14,560 --> 00:13:17,040 After he left, they drove as close as they could. 108 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:25,280 And it looked like there was a lot of security. 109 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:33,920 Still we're not sure, right? 110 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:40,000 So we need an airplane. 111 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:50,320 They came down and flew over the area. 112 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:54,360 What did he see out there in the desert? 113 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:59,200 Big green field. 114 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:02,280 Nobody expected that. 115 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:07,920 This time they fly a little lower. 116 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:17,200 We were not 100% certain until we actually arrived and saw it; 117 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:21,240 six to eight foot tall marijuana plants out in the desert. 118 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:23,560 Literally in the desert. 119 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:28,880 We successfully helped the Mexicans to seize that, 120 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:30,600 the field of marijuana. 121 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:32,840 It was about 200 acres. 122 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:34,280 Kiki smoked a cigar. 123 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:38,160 Sort of celebratory gesture on his part to smoke the cigar. 124 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:55,720 ♪ ♪ 125 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:11,400 MAN: Caro Quintero had this idea to innovate the way 126 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:17,320 marijuana was growing using an irrigation system that was 127 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:19,120 kind of sophisticated. 128 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:22,360 KUYKENDALL: Rafael Caro Quintero was, 129 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:25,440 for a while, a mysterious person. 130 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:28,120 We learn of this 30 year old multi‐millionaire, 131 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:30,040 maybe billionaire, who knows? 132 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:33,680 The guy behind all of these major marijuana plantations at the time. 133 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:03,320 GRILLO: With the Búfalo Ranch, you see the ambitions of 134 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:05,280 the Guadalajara cartel. 135 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:08,560 Big ideas, big thinking. 136 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:13,360 This was this huge, huge marijuana plantation. 137 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:15,080 The biggest that the world had ever seen. 138 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:18,680 They would go for days to see the scale of it. 139 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:23,880 It dwarfed any other marijuana plantation massively. 140 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:35,000 More than 5,000 workers. 141 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:52,520 ♪ ♪ 142 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:04,280 ♪ ♪ 143 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:17,040 ♪ ♪ 144 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:39,880 REPORTER (over TV): Cinco, cuatro, tres, dos, uno. 145 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:01,640 BROWN: That was one of the very largest seizures of 146 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:04,480 cultivated marijuana on record. 147 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:10,040 That really hurt their profit factor big time. 148 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:14,960 (overlapping chatter) 149 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:30,640 There was no way possible for that to be forgotten about. 150 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:48,640 REPORTER (over TV): Detective Sergeant Dale Lint, 151 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:50,360 who was on a vacation hunting trip, 152 00:18:50,360 --> 00:18:53,720 checking animal trap lines near this remote World War II air strip, 153 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:56,280 60 miles south‐west of Kingman, Arizona, 154 00:18:56,280 --> 00:18:58,600 when he spotted two suspicious trucks heading away 155 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:01,120 from the area and radioed for help. 156 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:06,800 ESQUIVEL: 1984 confiscation of that shipment of drugs took 157 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:09,680 the DEA by surprise. 158 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:11,320 REPORTER (over TV): When he first spotted the trucks, 159 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:14,040 Lint thought they might carry marijuana. 160 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:22,400 Hobby County Sheriff's Deputies 161 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:24,040 worked through the night, weighing, 162 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:26,760 marking and cataloguing what they now say is the largest 163 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:30,520 cocaine seizure ever made west of the Mississippi. 164 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:35,280 BROWN: We had done a lot of work on uh, marijuana. 165 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:38,520 Aircraft smuggling operations. 166 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:42,600 That information was crucial in identifying who the 167 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:45,880 aircraft belonged to and who the cocaine belonged to. 168 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:49,200 ESQUIVEL: It was the first evidence for the 169 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:52,720 U. S. government that the Guadalajara cartel started 170 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:55,680 doing business with the Colombians. 171 00:19:58,640 --> 00:19:59,920 GRILLO: Colombians were looking for, you know, 172 00:19:59,920 --> 00:20:03,800 how can we take our drugs to the United States? 173 00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:08,440 And the Guadalajara cartel had all of the trafficking routes 174 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:10,200 carved out already. 175 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:17,120 MAN: Mexico was a bouncing point. 176 00:20:17,120 --> 00:20:20,520 It was smart on the part of the Mexican traffickers. 177 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:22,440 They had to go away from something as bulky 178 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:26,480 as marijuana was, and go to something that's more packageable, 179 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:30,080 more concealable, much more profit factor. 180 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:34,920 GRILLO: This would change everything. 181 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:36,760 The amount of profits they would get from cocaine 182 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:39,560 would be astronomical. 183 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:27,280 BROWN: We had developed quite a bit of information about 184 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:30,640 Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo. 185 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:34,520 He was a Sinaloan. 186 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:39,560 They developed street sense beyond any street sense. 187 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:43,800 They learned that ruthlessness with no care about 188 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:48,360 any consequence can give you great riches. 189 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:54,600 GRILLO: The Guadalajara cartel were getting very angry and 190 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:57,440 they were particularly angry with Kiki Camarena, 191 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:02,800 this very young, aggressive agent that was out there 192 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:04,920 gathering information. 193 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:07,680 MAN: Rafael Caro Quintero wanted revenge. 194 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:15,680 ♪ ♪ 195 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:01,440 GRILLO: In the 1980s, as the Guadalajara cartel was growing 196 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:05,320 Caro Quintero was getting very annoyed by various busts. 197 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:10,720 He thought that the DEA were cleverer than they were and thought, 198 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:14,040 wow, they're following us around here, 199 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:16,480 and then they're busting our drugs up in Arizona. 200 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:18,360 They must be connected. 201 00:24:18,360 --> 00:24:20,280 So he was getting very frustrated with the 202 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:23,600 DEA and their business, and particularly with 203 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:25,920 Enrique "Kiki" Camarena. 204 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:35,160 HEATH: I advised our people that you've got to be 205 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:39,480 very careful, be very safe. 206 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:43,080 Don't take any chances 'cause we're dealing here 207 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:45,560 with a very strong group. 208 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:57,440 CAMARENA: Kiki had been very busy. 209 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:01,800 Their work is many times during the night. 210 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:10,480 I did not wake up until 6:00 in the morning. 211 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:14,480 There was no sign of him. 212 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:20,120 I was very scared. 213 00:25:20,120 --> 00:25:25,440 Very, very frightened but I had to hide that because 214 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:29,200 I needed to get the boys off to school. 215 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:32,520 HEATH: She calls the office, you know, 216 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:35,680 "Are y'all working on an investigation or whatever that took all night?" 217 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:38,800 and all that, and sometimes there is. 218 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:41,120 And they said, "No." 219 00:25:43,120 --> 00:25:45,200 KUYKENDALL: As soon as I learned that Kiki was missing, 220 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:46,920 I feared the worst. 221 00:25:51,120 --> 00:25:54,600 ♪ ♪ 222 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:01,760 BROWN: We knew we had an agent missing. 223 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:03,480 We knew we had to do everything we possibly could 224 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:08,200 now because time was so critical to find him and bring 225 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,360 him back safely. 226 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:14,880 MAN: There was no other suspects except the drug traffickers. 227 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,240 BROWN: We go balls to the wall. 228 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:22,080 With no quarter, we don't stop. 229 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,280 REPORTER (over TV): Camarena was last seen leaving the 230 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:27,480 US Consulate at around 2:30, Thursday afternoon. 231 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:30,520 Witnesses say suddenly four armed men grabbed him, 232 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:32,600 pushed him into the back of a car and sped away. 233 00:26:41,120 --> 00:26:43,560 REPORTER 2 (over TV): The same day a Mexican pilot disappeared 234 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:45,720 known to have aided the drug enforcement administration 235 00:27:04,360 --> 00:27:06,920 (radio chatter) 236 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,760 (wailing sirens) 237 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,320 BROWN: They had their AK47s. 238 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:14,240 The Mex Feds had their automatic rifles. 239 00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:17,800 And the DEA agents, we had little 38 caliber revolvers. 240 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:34,440 BROWN: Watching what was going on, 241 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:38,320 Rafael Caro Quintero stood, hands on his hips. 242 00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:40,760 I will never forget him. 243 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:44,600 Black mustache, black curly hair, 244 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:46,320 dressed impeccably. 245 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:49,360 Dress shirt, starched beautifully, 246 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:52,480 unbuttoned almost all the way down to his belly. 247 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:55,320 Necklaces, gold medallions. 248 00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:57,880 Sleeves rolled up a slight bit because he had a very 249 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:03,120 wide gold diamond encrusted bracelet on it. 250 00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,960 Just a sneer on his face. 251 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:09,880 Commandante Pavon of the Federal Police went up and 252 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:12,240 spoke with this man. 253 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:15,800 Quintero seemed to hand him something. 254 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:21,480 Pavon told us relax, he's on a special mission. 255 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:24,360 Very high‐level security mission and we are not to 256 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:27,240 impede his travel. 257 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:31,560 What the hell are you talking about? 258 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:34,200 This guy is not a federal comandante. 259 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:55,600 BROWN: And as the plane slowly began moving away from us, 260 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:59,360 I see Rafael Caro Quintero hold up a bottle of champagne 261 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:03,840 and yell to us in Spanish, "Boys, next time bring bigger toys." 262 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:11,400 REPORTER (over TV): In Mexico, the suspect in the kidnapping 263 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:13,760 of a US drug agent has disappeared, 264 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:16,000 and American officials are charging that Mexican Police 265 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:17,720 helped in the getaway. 266 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:24,480 REPORTER 2 (over TV): These are some of the men assigned to 267 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:27,000 the kidnapping case here in Guadalajara. 268 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,520 Elite Mexican Federal Police. 269 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:31,720 American authorities say the Mexican Police, 270 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:34,160 apparently on orders from Mexico City, 271 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:36,880 have taken what amounts to a three‐week siesta. 272 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:39,720 BROWN: We couldn't go forward. 273 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:40,880 We had no law enforcement authority. 274 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:44,080 We couldn't go searching places. 275 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:46,960 We couldn't ask for assistance of citizens, 276 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:49,760 we couldn't do anything without the Mexican Federal Police 277 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:52,600 because we were guests in their country. 278 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:56,480 REPORTER (over TV): Tonight, American authorities say they 279 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:58,240 will work on the marijuana fields here, 280 00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:01,600 the drug traffickers, the corrupt police later. 281 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:04,200 All they want now is their agent back. 282 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:17,280 ♪ ♪ 283 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:23,840 (speaking in native language). 284 00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:33,400 REPORTER (over TV): They were found with their arms bound 285 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,760 behind their backs, blindfolded 286 00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:38,640 They had been dead at least 15 days and had been buried 287 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,040 for part of that time. 288 00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:50,800 REPORTER 2 (over TV): The Commander of the 289 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:52,080 Mexican Police Task Force investigating the 290 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:54,600 disappearance of Camarena arrived. 291 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:56,800 The US Drug Enforcement Administration's top man in 292 00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:59,240 Mexico was also there. 293 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:01,000 He looked shaken as he left. 294 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:06,520 HEATH: I was the only one that was approved to sit in from 295 00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:09,960 the DEA at the autopsy. 296 00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:12,160 Well he was tortured, 297 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:18,120 and obviously hurt very badly, 298 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:23,560 and on and on and on until he died, so. 299 00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:42,000 CAMARENA: It was like, it was like a, I was feeling his pain. 300 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:49,560 It's like I wanted to feel that pain to, to be able to forgive. 301 00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:25,200 ESQUIVEL: The guy in charge of that interrogation was 302 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:30,720 Rafael Caro Quintero, and he was a natural killer. 303 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:38,360 He was so upset with the DEA and Kiki Camarena because 304 00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:43,600 months before that they discover a big plantation in 305 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:45,440 the Rancho El Búfalo. 306 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,880 (gunshots) 307 00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:28,520 BROWN: Kiki was a tough guy. 308 00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:29,600 He was a marine. 309 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:31,640 He put up with all kinds of stuff, 310 00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:33,640 fighting for the United States. 311 00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:35,720 And to have him suffer that torture at the hands of these 312 00:35:35,720 --> 00:35:38,760 traffickers was outrageous. 313 00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:44,720 KUYKENDALL: Kiki's body was flown to San Diego in a 314 00:35:44,720 --> 00:35:47,280 Air Force cargo plane. 315 00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:49,520 That was Kiki's last flight home, 316 00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:53,200 that was going back to his adopted country, 317 00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:55,480 The United States of America. 318 00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:57,200 I was in the aircraft, 319 00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:02,680 and it was a somber time, 320 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:04,600 somber flight. 321 00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:12,480 BROWN: From that moment, we had a great resolve in this country 322 00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:17,240 to find those who were responsible and bring them to justice. 323 00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:26,960 ♪ ♪ 324 00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:39,720 ♪ ♪ 325 00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:53,680 REPORTER (over TV): Rafael Caro Quintero is being 326 00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:57,120 held in a prison on the outskirts of Mexico City tonight. 327 00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:59,640 He was captured in Costa Rica earlier this week and returned 328 00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:02,560 to Mexico amid heavy security last night. 329 00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:11,480 REPORTER 2 (over TV): American officials say he is living in 330 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,080 a country club atmosphere with his own servants, 331 00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:15,560 liquor and private phone lines. 332 00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:22,680 REPORTER 3 (over TV): A police comandante, 333 00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:25,400 Armando Pavón Reyes, was sentenced to prison this week 334 00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:28,880 for taking a huge bribe to help Caro Quintero flee after the killing. 335 00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:47,840 REPORTER 4 (over TV): Félix Gallardo, reputedly 336 00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:50,240 Mexico's biggest cocaine trafficker, 337 00:37:50,240 --> 00:37:52,600 is also wanted for the Camarena killing 338 00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:53,760 but is still at large. 339 00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:17,640 (crowd cheering) 340 00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:54,440 GRILLO: As a teenager, he went to college and was studying 341 00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:59,120 business and he joined the police where he was assigned 342 00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:03,520 to be a bodyguard for public officials and started making 343 00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:07,560 strong connections in Mexican political circles. 344 00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:11,000 ESQUIVEL: Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, 345 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:15,560 a figure that had charisma. 346 00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:19,040 He was like a businessman in a suit. 347 00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:21,760 A narco trafficker in a suit. 348 00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:26,600 He knows how to talk to politicians and corrupt officials. 349 00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:50,400 ♪ ♪ 350 00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:20,760 GRILLO: When the Mexicans got into cocaine in a big way, 351 00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:25,040 this would turn the Mexican drug traffickers from what had been, 352 00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:28,640 you know, at one point marijuana smugglers into these 353 00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:33,400 people running multi‐billion dollar businesses and who 354 00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:36,840 would use that money to build armies that would 355 00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:39,640 drown Mexico in blood. 356 00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:50,200 REPORTER (over TV): At least 40% of the cocaine smuggled 357 00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:54,080 into the States is from the Tijuana Cartel. 358 00:43:57,560 --> 00:44:00,600 MAN: To control that city, you have to kill a lot of people. 359 00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:05,000 Captioned by Cotter Captioning Services.