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REPORTER (over TV):
Shake this square world
and blast off for Kicksville.
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NIXON: Public enemy
number one is drug abuse.
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NANCY: Just say no.
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REAGAN: Halting the drug
problem in America is like
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carrying water in a sieve.
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BUSH: Take my word for it,
this scourge will stop.
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REPORTER 2 (over TV): There's
now an understanding that the
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war on drugs was
an abject failure.
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MAN: You have to
stop and ask yourself;
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how did we get here?
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TRUMP: We will build a wall.
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MAN: We buy grass in Mexico,
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the most important
thing is your contact.
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REPORTER (over TV): This is
the real action, the pot party.
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The trippers, the grasshoppers,
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the hip ones
flying high as a kite.
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TURNER: You had
a society that,
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since the 60s, had sort of
been gradually moving toward
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more of a drug subculture.
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REPORTER (over TV): In time,
the continued use of marijuana
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causes psychic and
physiological changes.
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Shame, arrest, prison.
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TURNER: So you had an increase
in marijuana use that reached
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an apex in 1979 when you had
one in nine high school seniors
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using marijuana
on a daily basis.
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♪ You just gonna
break my heart ♪
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♪ My fallen angel ♪
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TURNER: It made the
government realize that
the efforts in Mexico
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need to be reinvigorated.
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BROWN: I initially went
to Mexico to work on the
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marijuana cultivation
and trafficking.
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The state of
Sinaloa was the heart of
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marijuana
cultivation for decades,
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if not centuries.
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Higher up in the Sierra Madres
was a climate temperature,
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water and sunlight, made it
ideal for growing marijuana.
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Our assignment was to work
with the Mexican Federal Police.
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But it was a very frustrating
time for what we were doing.
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We saw the continued growth of
organized criminal groups that
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now are called cartels.
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It was becoming hotter.
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It was a hot environment.
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GRILLO: Sinaloa to the
Mexican drug cartels is like
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Sicily is to the Italian mafia.
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But around that time, you
saw Sinaloans relocating their
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operations to Mexico's second
biggest city, Guadalajara.
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A really strategic city, much
closer to the center of power.
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This is really
when the Guadalajara
cartel came together.
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It was a group of Mexican
drug traffickers saying,
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okay, let's share our resources.
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ESQUIVEL: One of the pioneers
was Rafael Caro Quintero.
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He made what now is
called the Guadalajara cartel.
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Using the roads of
Guadalajara to send drugs
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to the United States,
especially marijuana.
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BROWN: He came from a
small village in Sinaloa.
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A street thug, moved
up pretty quickly.
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Smart though, for somebody
with a very limited education.
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He saw an opportunity.
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BROWN: They pretended
to be sophisticated,
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and they were
really just thugs.
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They ruled by brutality, by
killing people who disagreed.
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KUYKENDALL: Well this
picture was taken of
me in September of 1982,
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standing in the middle of a
200 acre field of marijuana,
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seven‐foot stalks,
mature marijuana.
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I'm Jaime Kuykendall.
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I was the DEA agent from
the time that it was created,
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July the 1st, 1973.
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The job that I was
given in Guadalajara, Mexico
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was to gather as much
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intelligence as possible and
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then give that information to
the United States government.
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There were three agents
there when I got there.
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One of them was
Enrique Camarena.
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Everyone called him Kiki.
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Kiki was born in Mexico,
became a naturalized
United States citizen.
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For a DEA agent,
he was a family man,
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and this is a picture
of Kiki and his wife.
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Her nickname is Mika.
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CAMARENA: Kiki
was very excited.
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He couldn't wait to
get a case out there.
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CAMARENA:
Guadalajara was beautiful.
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The weather was perfect.
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The people were very friendly.
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Kiki was very good
at befriending people.
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They knew he was Mexican.
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He would speak their language.
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(crowd cheering)
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BROWN: He was an old‐time cop.
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He believes in justice on the
street and going out and, and
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working the case.
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KUYKENDALL: He enjoyed
matching wits with the bad guys.
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CAMARENA: Kiki's job was
to locate these traffickers,
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know exactly who they
were and where they hung out.
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And so the way he
could get a case is by
finding his informants.
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KUYKENDALL: Well they
stopped at a beer truck
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'cause they were
getting kind of thirsty.
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And uh, asked him if he'd
noticed anything unusual
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in the area, any extra activity.
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He said, "Well, over in the
distance there, there's a farm."
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And he said, "I don't know
what's going on over there,
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but they've got a lot of workers
'cause they buy a lot of beer
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for me and I can't get in,
every time I get there,
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they send somebody out
to pick up some beer."
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After he left, they drove
as close as they could.
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And it looked like there
was a lot of security.
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Still we're not sure, right?
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So we need an airplane.
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They came down and
flew over the area.
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What did he see out
there in the desert?
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Big green field.
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Nobody expected that.
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This time they
fly a little lower.
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We were not 100% certain until
we actually arrived and saw it;
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six to eight foot tall marijuana
plants out in the desert.
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Literally in the desert.
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We successfully helped
the Mexicans to seize that,
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the field of marijuana.
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It was about 200 acres.
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Kiki smoked a cigar.
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Sort of celebratory gesture
on his part to smoke the cigar.
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MAN: Caro Quintero had
this idea to innovate the way
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marijuana was growing using
an irrigation system that was
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kind of sophisticated.
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KUYKENDALL:
Rafael Caro Quintero was,
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for a while, a
mysterious person.
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We learn of this
30 year old multi‐millionaire,
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maybe billionaire, who knows?
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The guy behind all of
these major marijuana
plantations at the time.
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GRILLO: With the Búfalo Ranch,
you see the ambitions of
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the Guadalajara cartel.
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Big ideas, big thinking.
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This was this huge,
huge marijuana plantation.
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The biggest that the
world had ever seen.
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They would go for days
to see the scale of it.
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It dwarfed any other
marijuana plantation massively.
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More than 5,000 workers.
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REPORTER (over TV):
Cinco, cuatro, tres, dos, uno.
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BROWN: That was one of
the very largest seizures of
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cultivated marijuana on record.
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That really hurt their
profit factor big time.
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(overlapping chatter)
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There was no way possible
for that to be forgotten about.
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REPORTER (over TV):
Detective Sergeant Dale Lint,
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who was on a
vacation hunting trip,
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checking animal trap
lines near this remote
World War II air strip,
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60 miles south‐west
of Kingman, Arizona,
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when he spotted two
suspicious trucks heading away
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from the area and
radioed for help.
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ESQUIVEL: 1984 confiscation
of that shipment of drugs took
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the DEA by surprise.
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REPORTER (over TV): When
he first spotted the trucks,
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Lint thought they
might carry marijuana.
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Hobby County Sheriff's Deputies
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worked through
the night, weighing,
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marking and cataloguing what
they now say is the largest
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cocaine seizure ever made
west of the Mississippi.
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BROWN: We had done a
lot of work on uh, marijuana.
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Aircraft smuggling operations.
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That information was
crucial in identifying who the
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aircraft belonged to and
who the cocaine belonged to.
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ESQUIVEL: It was the
first evidence for the
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U. S. government that the
Guadalajara cartel started
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doing business
with the Colombians.
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GRILLO: Colombians
were looking for, you know,
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how can we take our
drugs to the United States?
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And the Guadalajara cartel had
all of the trafficking routes
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carved out already.
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MAN: Mexico was
a bouncing point.
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It was smart on the part
of the Mexican traffickers.
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They had to go away
from something as bulky
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as marijuana was,
and go to something
that's more packageable,
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more concealable,
much more profit factor.
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GRILLO: This would
change everything.
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The amount of profits
they would get from cocaine
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would be astronomical.
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BROWN: We had developed quite
a bit of information about
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Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo.
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He was a Sinaloan.
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They developed street
sense beyond any street sense.
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They learned that
ruthlessness with no care about
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any consequence can
give you great riches.
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GRILLO: The Guadalajara cartel
were getting very angry and
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they were particularly
angry with Kiki Camarena,
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this very young, aggressive
agent that was out there
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gathering information.
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MAN: Rafael Caro Quintero
wanted revenge.
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GRILLO: In the 1980s, as the
Guadalajara cartel was growing
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Caro Quintero was getting
very annoyed by various busts.
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He thought that the
DEA were cleverer than
they were and thought,
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wow, they're
following us around here,
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and then they're busting
our drugs up in Arizona.
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They must be connected.
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So he was getting
very frustrated with the
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DEA and their business,
and particularly with
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Enrique "Kiki" Camarena.
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HEATH: I advised our
people that you've got to be
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very careful, be very safe.
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Don't take any chances
'cause we're dealing here
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with a very strong group.
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CAMARENA: Kiki
had been very busy.
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Their work is many
times during the night.
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I did not wake up
until 6:00 in the morning.
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There was no sign of him.
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I was very scared.
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Very, very frightened but
I had to hide that because
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I needed to get the
boys off to school.
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HEATH: She calls
the office, you know,
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"Are y'all working
on an investigation or
whatever that took all night?"
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and all that, and
sometimes there is.
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And they said, "No."
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KUYKENDALL: As soon as I
learned that Kiki was missing,
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I feared the worst.
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BROWN: We knew we
had an agent missing.
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We knew we had to do
everything we possibly could
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now because time was so
critical to find him and bring
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him back safely.
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MAN: There was no other suspects
except the drug traffickers.
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BROWN: We go balls to the wall.
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With no quarter, we don't stop.
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REPORTER (over TV): Camarena
was last seen leaving the
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US Consulate at around 2:30,
Thursday afternoon.
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Witnesses say suddenly
four armed men grabbed him,
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pushed him into the back
of a car and sped away.
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REPORTER 2 (over TV): The same
day a Mexican pilot disappeared
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known to have aided the
drug enforcement administration
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(radio chatter)
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(wailing sirens)
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BROWN: They had their AK47s.
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The Mex Feds had
their automatic rifles.
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And the DEA agents, we had
little 38 caliber revolvers.
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BROWN: Watching
what was going on,
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Rafael Caro Quintero stood,
hands on his hips.
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I will never forget him.
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Black mustache,
black curly hair,
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dressed impeccably.
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Dress shirt,
starched beautifully,
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unbuttoned almost all
the way down to his belly.
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Necklaces, gold medallions.
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Sleeves rolled up a slight
bit because he had a very
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wide gold diamond
encrusted bracelet on it.
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Just a sneer on his face.
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Commandante Pavon of the
Federal Police went up and
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spoke with this man.
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Quintero seemed to
hand him something.
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Pavon told us relax,
he's on a special mission.
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Very high‐level security
mission and we are not to
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impede his travel.
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What the hell are
you talking about?
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This guy is not a
federal comandante.
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BROWN: And as the plane slowly
began moving away from us,
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I see Rafael Caro Quintero
hold up a bottle of champagne
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and yell to us in
Spanish, "Boys, next
time bring bigger toys."
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REPORTER (over TV): In Mexico,
the suspect in the kidnapping
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of a US drug agent
has disappeared,
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and American officials are
charging that Mexican Police
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helped in the getaway.
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REPORTER 2 (over TV): These
are some of the men assigned to
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the kidnapping case
here in Guadalajara.
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Elite Mexican Federal Police.
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American authorities
say the Mexican Police,
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apparently on
orders from Mexico City,
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have taken what amounts
to a three‐week siesta.
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BROWN: We couldn't go forward.
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We had no
law enforcement authority.
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We couldn't go searching places.
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We couldn't ask for
assistance of citizens,
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we couldn't do anything without
the Mexican Federal Police
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because we were
guests in their country.
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REPORTER (over TV): Tonight,
American authorities say they
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will work on the
marijuana fields here,
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the drug traffickers,
the corrupt police later.
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All they want now
is their agent back.
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(speaking in native language).
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REPORTER (over TV): They were
found with their arms bound
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behind their backs, blindfolded
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They had been dead at least
15 days and had been buried
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for part of that time.
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REPORTER 2 (over TV):
The Commander of the
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Mexican Police Task Force
investigating the
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disappearance of
Camarena arrived.
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The US Drug Enforcement
Administration's top man in
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Mexico was also there.
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He looked shaken as he left.
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HEATH: I was the only one that
was approved to sit in from
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the DEA at the autopsy.
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Well he was tortured,
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and obviously hurt very badly,
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and on and on and
on until he died, so.
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CAMARENA: It was like, it was
like a, I was feeling his pain.
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It's like I wanted to feel that
pain to, to be able to forgive.
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ESQUIVEL: The guy in charge
of that interrogation was
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Rafael Caro Quintero,
and he was a natural killer.
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He was so upset with the
DEA and Kiki Camarena because
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months before that they
discover a big plantation in
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the Rancho El Búfalo.
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(gunshots)
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BROWN: Kiki was a tough guy.
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He was a marine.
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He put up with
all kinds of stuff,
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fighting for the
United States.
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And to have him suffer that
torture at the hands of these
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traffickers was outrageous.
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KUYKENDALL: Kiki's body
was flown to San Diego in a
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Air Force cargo plane.
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That was Kiki's
last flight home,
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that was going back to
his adopted country,
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The United States of America.
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I was in the aircraft,
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and it was a somber time,
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somber flight.
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BROWN: From that moment, we had
a great resolve in this country
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to find those who
were responsible and
bring them to justice.
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REPORTER (over TV):
Rafael Caro Quintero is being
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held in a prison
on the outskirts of
Mexico City tonight.
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He was captured in Costa Rica
earlier this week and returned
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to Mexico amid heavy
security last night.
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REPORTER 2 (over TV): American
officials say he is living in
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a country club atmosphere
with his own servants,
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liquor and private phone lines.
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REPORTER 3 (over TV):
A police comandante,
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Armando Pavón Reyes, was
sentenced to prison this week
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for taking a huge bribe
to help Caro Quintero
flee after the killing.
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REPORTER 4 (over TV):
Félix Gallardo, reputedly
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Mexico's biggest
cocaine trafficker,
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is also wanted for
the Camarena killing
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but is still at large.
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(crowd cheering)
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GRILLO: As a teenager, he went
to college and was studying
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business and he joined the
police where he was assigned
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to be a bodyguard for public
officials and started making
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strong connections in
Mexican political circles.
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ESQUIVEL: Miguel
Angel Felix Gallardo,
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a figure that had charisma.
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He was like a
businessman in a suit.
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A narco trafficker in a suit.
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He knows how to
talk to politicians
and corrupt officials.
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GRILLO: When the Mexicans
got into cocaine in a big way,
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this would turn the Mexican drug
traffickers from what had been,
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you know, at one point
marijuana smugglers into these
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people running multi‐billion
dollar businesses and who
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would use that money to
build armies that would
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drown Mexico in blood.
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REPORTER (over TV): At least
40% of the cocaine smuggled
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into the States is
from the Tijuana Cartel.
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MAN: To control that city, you
have to kill a lot of people.
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