The Mexican drug war is an armed campaign that has lasted from 2006 until today between the Mexican government and drug trafficking gangs.
Chihuahua poppy fields
In November 1984, Mexican security forces raided the farm of drug lord Rafael Cairo Quintero in the state of Chihuahua.
The Guadalajara gang immediately searched for the security force’s informant.
The kidnapping and brutal torture of Enrique ‘Kiki’ Camarena
Enrique ‘Kiki’ Camarena is a special agent of the DEA (US drug enforcement force) assigned to go undercover to investigate the supply of marijuana, cocaine… in Mexico.
On February 7, 1985, a month before returning to America, Enrique was kidnapped by a group of strangers while on his way to a lunch date with his wife.
However, despite the efforts of the two countries’ authorities, the bodies of agent Enrique ‘Kiki’ Camerana and pilot Alfredo Zavala Avelar were only found after 30 days on the roadside.
Operation Leyenda or the revenge of the Americans and the ‘undercover law’ did not touch the DEA
Before the death of agent Enrique ‘Kiki’ Camerana, DEA launched an investigation or rather a campaign to arrest Leyenda.
However, to this day, analysts all believe that the case of agent Enrique and the way the Americans ‘revenge’ are the bloody beginning of the future Mexican drug war.
