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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:06,590 --> 00:00:08,470 [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] 2 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:39,080 [CAR ENGINE RUMBLING] 3 00:00:41,584 --> 00:00:43,964 REPORTER: There may be no more dangerous job in the world 4 00:00:44,044 --> 00:00:46,714 these days than being an undercover agent for the United 5 00:00:46,797 --> 00:00:51,297 States Drug Enforcement Administration, the DEA, 6 00:00:51,385 --> 00:00:54,885 the federal agency which is at war with ruthless drug dealers 7 00:00:54,972 --> 00:00:57,812 around the world. 8 00:00:57,892 --> 00:01:00,732 Tonight, one of those undercover agents is missing. 9 00:01:00,811 --> 00:01:02,901 Apparently, the victim of drug vengeance. 10 00:01:04,732 --> 00:01:06,612 REPORTER: Enrique Camarena was reportedly 11 00:01:06,692 --> 00:01:09,652 kidnapped by four armed men in Guadalajara, Mexico. 12 00:01:09,737 --> 00:01:12,407 The hostages' whereabouts and condition unknown. 13 00:01:12,490 --> 00:01:15,620 REPORTER: Camarena left the US consulate on February 7, 14 00:01:15,701 --> 00:01:17,581 intending to meet his wife for lunch, 15 00:01:17,661 --> 00:01:21,171 and was apparently abducted less than a half a block away. 16 00:01:21,248 --> 00:01:23,168 A small army of Mexican Federal 17 00:01:23,250 --> 00:01:25,880 Police and American drug agents are searching for Camarena. 18 00:01:25,961 --> 00:01:27,841 But so far they have found nothing. 19 00:01:30,925 --> 00:01:32,795 REPORTER: US inspectors are making a thorough search 20 00:01:32,885 --> 00:01:35,345 of more than half the cars crossing into this country 21 00:01:35,429 --> 00:01:37,139 along the entire Mexican border 22 00:01:37,223 --> 00:01:39,643 from San Ysidro, California, to Brownsville, Texas. 23 00:01:39,725 --> 00:01:41,975 REPORTER: Motorists at the busiest border crossing 24 00:01:42,061 --> 00:01:44,231 at San Ysidro, near San Diego, have 25 00:01:44,313 --> 00:01:45,983 had to wait up to nine hours. 26 00:01:46,065 --> 00:01:47,935 REPORTER: Although the White House denies it, 27 00:01:48,025 --> 00:01:50,775 reliable sources tell NBC News President Reagan has spoken 28 00:01:50,861 --> 00:01:52,741 to Mexican president De La Madrid 29 00:01:52,822 --> 00:01:54,952 about the case of Enrique Camarena. 30 00:01:55,032 --> 00:01:58,082 ABC News has learned that Camarena had uncovered evidence 31 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:00,040 indicating that high Mexican law enforcement 32 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:02,290 agents were involved with the drug smugglers. 33 00:02:07,294 --> 00:02:10,014 I've had this little thorn in my heart 34 00:02:10,089 --> 00:02:14,299 knowing the truth about what really happened to Kiki. 35 00:02:14,385 --> 00:02:19,265 The US intelligence officials ordered the kidnapping and 36 00:02:19,348 --> 00:02:22,598 interrogation of Kiki Camarena. 37 00:02:25,604 --> 00:02:29,614 The Camarena case is still being covered up to this day. 38 00:02:29,692 --> 00:02:32,032 And I want the world to know the truth. 39 00:02:32,152 --> 00:02:33,952 It's time. 40 00:02:34,029 --> 00:02:37,739 And if I die doing it, well, that's what God wanted. 41 00:02:37,825 --> 00:02:41,245 [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] 42 00:02:41,328 --> 00:02:44,418 [THUNDER RUMBLING] 43 00:03:05,686 --> 00:03:08,056 PRESIDENT NIXON: We must wage what I have called total war 44 00:03:08,147 --> 00:03:11,727 against public enemy number one in the United States, 45 00:03:11,817 --> 00:03:14,277 problem of dangerous drugs. 46 00:03:14,361 --> 00:03:16,701 NARRATOR: In 1973, President Nixon 47 00:03:16,780 --> 00:03:19,660 created the Drug Enforcement Administration to fight 48 00:03:19,742 --> 00:03:23,372 America's new war on drugs. 49 00:03:23,454 --> 00:03:26,124 The DEA used undercover narcotics agents, 50 00:03:26,206 --> 00:03:29,786 known as narcs, to bust traffickers in the US 51 00:03:29,877 --> 00:03:31,917 and around the world. 52 00:03:32,004 --> 00:03:35,424 In 1980, the drug war expanded to Mexico, 53 00:03:35,507 --> 00:03:37,637 where a group of marijuana growers 54 00:03:37,718 --> 00:03:40,008 had relocated from the mountains of Sinaloa 55 00:03:40,095 --> 00:03:42,465 to the city of Guadalajara to forge 56 00:03:42,556 --> 00:03:45,596 Mexico's first drug cartel. 57 00:03:45,684 --> 00:03:50,904 Rafael Caro Quintero, Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, 58 00:03:50,981 --> 00:03:53,981 and Miguel Felix Gallardo, became the most 59 00:03:54,068 --> 00:03:55,948 powerful drug lords of the era. 60 00:03:59,365 --> 00:04:03,235 In 1985, they conspired to kidnap, torture, 61 00:04:03,327 --> 00:04:06,617 and murder DEA Agent Kiki Camarena, 62 00:04:06,705 --> 00:04:09,495 resulting in their downfall. 63 00:04:09,583 --> 00:04:12,923 The disintegration of the Guadalajara cartel 64 00:04:13,003 --> 00:04:16,723 plunged Mexico into violence and led to the rise 65 00:04:16,799 --> 00:04:20,389 of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. 66 00:04:20,469 --> 00:04:23,719 Since then, more than 125,000 people have 67 00:04:23,806 --> 00:04:26,766 died in Mexico's cartel wars. 68 00:04:26,850 --> 00:04:31,400 But to this day, Camarena's murder looms above them all. 69 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:34,690 For 35 years, the truth behind his killing 70 00:04:34,775 --> 00:04:36,735 has remained a closely guarded secret 71 00:04:36,819 --> 00:04:38,449 at the highest levels of government 72 00:04:38,529 --> 00:04:41,819 in Mexico and the US. 73 00:04:41,907 --> 00:04:44,577 This is the story of the man who was murdered, 74 00:04:44,660 --> 00:04:46,540 the men who killed him, and the one 75 00:04:46,620 --> 00:04:50,120 man who risked everything to find out what really happened 76 00:04:50,207 --> 00:04:51,077 and why. 77 00:04:51,166 --> 00:04:55,166 [THEME MUSIC] 78 00:05:27,494 --> 00:05:31,334 When my mom was like 16, she got pregnant with me. 79 00:05:31,415 --> 00:05:34,665 And my grandmother, who was a very strict Catholic, 80 00:05:34,752 --> 00:05:37,422 said, you got to leave the house. 81 00:05:37,504 --> 00:05:39,344 So my mom went and became friends 82 00:05:39,423 --> 00:05:43,763 with these ladies that were like gypsies that told fortunes. 83 00:05:45,846 --> 00:05:47,806 They took her in and they said, listen, 84 00:05:47,890 --> 00:05:50,430 you know, you learn this trade, and you'll always have money. 85 00:05:51,518 --> 00:05:53,518 Your present, your past, and your future. 86 00:05:53,812 --> 00:05:56,322 Present, past, and future. 87 00:05:56,398 --> 00:05:58,648 That's the way she supported herself 88 00:05:58,734 --> 00:06:00,494 when she was pregnant with me. 89 00:06:00,569 --> 00:06:03,069 She married my dad, who lived in Mexico. 90 00:06:03,155 --> 00:06:06,615 Before I was born, they migrated to the United States, 91 00:06:06,700 --> 00:06:08,830 and I was the oldest of six brothers. 92 00:06:09,620 --> 00:06:11,790 You are going to be happy, 93 00:06:11,872 --> 00:06:14,502 because you feel that some force is protecting you. 94 00:06:14,583 --> 00:06:17,753 You will always care for your family. 95 00:06:18,337 --> 00:06:20,757 We grew up in South Tucson, Arizona, which 96 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:23,509 is mainly a Hispanic community. 97 00:06:23,592 --> 00:06:26,302 All of my Anglo friends spoke Spanglish, 98 00:06:26,386 --> 00:06:28,096 half English half Spanish. 99 00:06:28,180 --> 00:06:30,640 So I grew up speaking both languages. 100 00:06:33,852 --> 00:06:37,232 You are going to receive a letter or some news 101 00:06:37,314 --> 00:06:39,734 about the death of someone you know, 102 00:06:39,817 --> 00:06:41,777 someone you care about. 103 00:06:41,860 --> 00:06:43,360 It will bring you sadness, 104 00:06:43,445 --> 00:06:46,905 and you will have to fight for your life. 105 00:06:49,660 --> 00:06:53,460 Once I did my time in the US military during the Vietnam War 106 00:06:53,539 --> 00:06:57,289 and reported home, my dad had broken his back, 107 00:06:57,376 --> 00:06:59,876 and he wasn't working, so there was no money coming in. 108 00:06:59,962 --> 00:07:01,712 So I started looking at the unemployment 109 00:07:01,797 --> 00:07:04,127 section of the newspaper, and there was 110 00:07:04,216 --> 00:07:06,386 openings for police officers. 111 00:07:06,468 --> 00:07:10,308 And the last thing I wanted to be growing up was a policeman. 112 00:07:10,389 --> 00:07:12,219 But then I found out that my little brother, 113 00:07:12,307 --> 00:07:17,347 who was 12 years old, was hooked on heroin. 114 00:07:17,437 --> 00:07:20,817 The only time that I saw my dad cry-- 115 00:07:20,899 --> 00:07:23,279 when he would see his son be dragged in by the US 116 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:25,610 Marshals in chains. 117 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:31,620 And I remember the tears rolling down my dad's face. 118 00:07:31,702 --> 00:07:34,832 And it hurt me dearly because I adored my father. 119 00:07:34,913 --> 00:07:36,423 And I would grab him and say, Dad, don't worry. 120 00:07:36,498 --> 00:07:38,378 I'm going to do something about this. 121 00:07:38,458 --> 00:07:40,998 These guys are going to pay that addict people like this. 122 00:07:41,086 --> 00:07:43,086 I'm going to arrest every drug dealer I can. 123 00:07:43,172 --> 00:07:46,472 [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] 124 00:07:50,429 --> 00:07:53,889 [INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC] 125 00:07:56,393 --> 00:07:59,863 [MUSIC - ROSIE AND THE ORIGINALS, "ANGEL BABY"] 126 00:08:10,991 --> 00:08:17,581 ♪ It's just like heaven being here with you ♪ 127 00:08:17,664 --> 00:08:20,464 [SPEAKING SPANISH] 128 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:32,350 A, B, C, D, E, F, G, oh boy! 129 00:08:32,429 --> 00:08:40,939 ♪ Angel baby, my angel baby ♪ 130 00:08:41,021 --> 00:08:44,151 ♪ When you are near me ♪ 131 00:08:44,233 --> 00:08:46,033 Kiki was born in Mexico, 132 00:08:46,109 --> 00:08:48,819 and he immigrated with his family at the age of 9. 133 00:08:48,904 --> 00:08:54,284 Then he started school in the US at Calexico. 134 00:08:54,368 --> 00:08:57,328 And that's where we wound up meeting. 135 00:08:59,790 --> 00:09:03,630 A lot of the families traveled north to work in the crops. 136 00:09:03,710 --> 00:09:11,340 In the summer of our sophomore year, we made eye contact. 137 00:09:11,426 --> 00:09:13,636 We were 14. 138 00:09:16,431 --> 00:09:19,941 Kiki and I graduated in 1966. 139 00:09:20,018 --> 00:09:24,308 At 18, Kiki had a vision of what he wanted to do. 140 00:09:24,398 --> 00:09:29,438 He wanted to marry me and be an FBI agent. 141 00:09:29,528 --> 00:09:32,488 I thought, how could you possibly at this age already 142 00:09:32,572 --> 00:09:36,372 be so serious about what you want? 143 00:09:36,410 --> 00:09:42,540 Then Kiki was drafted to the Army, but he chose the Marines. 144 00:09:42,624 --> 00:09:44,714 Kiki always felt that the Marines were tougher. 145 00:09:48,005 --> 00:09:50,415 He always wanted to do the right thing. 146 00:09:50,507 --> 00:09:54,087 And being in law enforcement was part of that. 147 00:09:54,177 --> 00:09:57,307 ♪ Please never leave me ♪ 148 00:09:57,389 --> 00:10:00,979 ♪ Blue and alone ♪ 149 00:10:01,059 --> 00:10:04,309 ♪ If you ever go ♪ 150 00:10:04,396 --> 00:10:08,396 ♪ I'm sure you'll come back home ♪ 151 00:10:08,483 --> 00:10:11,453 ♪ Because I love you... ♪ 152 00:10:15,407 --> 00:10:18,117 HECTOR BERRELLEZ: I really liked being a cop. 153 00:10:18,201 --> 00:10:20,791 And I stepped up to the state police 154 00:10:20,871 --> 00:10:23,211 as a uniformed highway patrolman. 155 00:10:23,290 --> 00:10:28,380 [MUSIC - CCR, "BAD MOON RISING"] ♪ I see the bad moon rising ♪ 156 00:10:28,462 --> 00:10:30,012 ♪ I see trouble... ♪ 157 00:10:30,088 --> 00:10:32,088 They would use me to do undercover buys 158 00:10:32,174 --> 00:10:34,054 because I spoke Spanish. 159 00:10:34,134 --> 00:10:37,104 One day I was writing tickets, the next day I'm undercover. 160 00:10:37,179 --> 00:10:39,769 I liked it. But it was very, very dangerous. 161 00:10:39,848 --> 00:10:41,728 I'm surprised I didn't run into somebody 162 00:10:41,808 --> 00:10:44,348 that I had given a ticket to like two or three days before. 163 00:10:44,436 --> 00:10:46,556 ♪ Don't go around tonight ♪ 164 00:10:46,646 --> 00:10:49,856 ♪ Well, it's bound to take your life ♪ 165 00:10:49,941 --> 00:10:53,241 I looked like a cop. Very young. I had short hair. 166 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:55,450 So I felt uncomfortable going with the informants, 167 00:10:55,530 --> 00:10:57,910 and meeting these Mexican drug dealers, and they look at me 168 00:10:57,991 --> 00:10:59,951 and says, are you sure you're not a cop? 169 00:11:00,035 --> 00:11:01,865 "Man, I don't even have papers." 170 00:11:01,953 --> 00:11:03,913 "I don't even have green papers. I'm here illegally." 171 00:11:03,997 --> 00:11:05,707 I became an adrenaline junkie. 172 00:11:05,791 --> 00:11:07,331 I liked the rush that you got. 173 00:11:07,417 --> 00:11:09,287 You are afraid you might get shot or killed, 174 00:11:09,378 --> 00:11:11,508 but then you're saying, I can fool this guy. 175 00:11:11,588 --> 00:11:15,878 ♪ There's a bad moon on the rise ♪ 176 00:11:15,967 --> 00:11:18,797 When I was making buys for the state police, 177 00:11:18,887 --> 00:11:20,927 an informant came in and said that he had met a very 178 00:11:21,014 --> 00:11:23,064 big heroin dealer from Sinaloa. 179 00:11:23,141 --> 00:11:28,731 So they said, go in there, buy an ounce of heroin for $10,000, 180 00:11:28,814 --> 00:11:29,864 and pay him. 181 00:11:32,359 --> 00:11:34,359 So I walk in, and of course, I can't 182 00:11:34,444 --> 00:11:35,994 act like I'm experienced with this guy, 183 00:11:36,071 --> 00:11:38,281 because this guy is a big drug dealer. 184 00:11:38,365 --> 00:11:40,115 He was very well dressed, a lot of jewelry, 185 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:41,700 about 50 years old, and I tell him-- 186 00:11:41,785 --> 00:11:44,155 "Look, my mom is in very bad shape. 187 00:11:44,246 --> 00:11:47,166 She is very sick, she has cancer. 188 00:11:47,249 --> 00:11:49,629 And I know nothing about this business. 189 00:11:49,709 --> 00:11:51,379 I know nothing about heroin." 190 00:11:51,461 --> 00:11:53,841 And he says, "This is amazing heroin, 191 00:11:53,922 --> 00:11:55,422 comes directly from the lab." 192 00:11:55,507 --> 00:11:57,967 And I said, "Please, please." 193 00:11:58,051 --> 00:12:01,851 "Because if I take them something that's been cut... 194 00:12:01,930 --> 00:12:04,270 They'll kill me." 195 00:12:04,349 --> 00:12:08,269 And he says, "Calm down, calm down, kid. 196 00:12:08,353 --> 00:12:10,653 This is pure heroin." 197 00:12:10,730 --> 00:12:12,320 And he puts down an ounce of heroin. 198 00:12:13,316 --> 00:12:14,776 "Did you bring the money?" 199 00:12:14,860 --> 00:12:16,700 So I had $10,000 of marked bills. 200 00:12:16,778 --> 00:12:18,318 And I gave him the $10,000. 201 00:12:18,405 --> 00:12:19,985 "Take it. 202 00:12:20,073 --> 00:12:22,243 And I have a gift for you." 203 00:12:22,325 --> 00:12:24,235 And he handed me this bag, plastic bag, 204 00:12:24,327 --> 00:12:25,787 full of white powder. 205 00:12:25,871 --> 00:12:28,831 "It's pure cocaine." 206 00:12:28,915 --> 00:12:30,125 "Is it cocaine?" 207 00:12:30,208 --> 00:12:31,378 "Yes." 208 00:12:31,460 --> 00:12:34,250 I'm acting dumb, naive. 209 00:12:35,797 --> 00:12:37,257 "Thank you." 210 00:12:38,884 --> 00:12:40,894 "Listen, sell this cocaine 211 00:12:40,969 --> 00:12:43,889 and pay your mom's medical bills." 212 00:12:43,972 --> 00:12:46,522 It's a gift from me to you. 213 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:48,440 I like you, dude, and by the way, get out of this business. 214 00:12:48,518 --> 00:12:49,848 You don't belong in this business. 215 00:12:49,936 --> 00:12:51,646 You're too young and too naive 216 00:12:51,730 --> 00:12:53,650 and too nice of a guy to be involved in this shit. 217 00:12:53,732 --> 00:12:57,192 I don't want to see you again, but we're going do this deal. 218 00:12:57,277 --> 00:13:02,027 So I go outside, open the trunk, and here comes the cavalry, 219 00:13:02,115 --> 00:13:04,775 and they go in and arrest everybody. 220 00:13:04,868 --> 00:13:08,498 We had like a SWAT team out there. 221 00:13:08,580 --> 00:13:11,370 And as they're walking him out of the hotel in handcuffs-- 222 00:13:12,709 --> 00:13:15,049 "You're really good, kid." 223 00:13:15,128 --> 00:13:18,088 And I says, "Oh well, thank you." 224 00:13:21,301 --> 00:13:23,601 Later that night, everybody goes to a bar 225 00:13:23,678 --> 00:13:25,388 to celebrate the arrest. 226 00:13:25,472 --> 00:13:27,812 It wasn't my case. 227 00:13:27,891 --> 00:13:32,561 The case agent was another agent, didn't speak Spanish, 228 00:13:32,646 --> 00:13:34,726 and everybody's going to him and congratulating him. 229 00:13:34,814 --> 00:13:36,904 Hey, that was a great case. 230 00:13:36,983 --> 00:13:40,073 And his boss tells him, hey, I want to put you 231 00:13:40,153 --> 00:13:42,533 in for an award on this case. 232 00:13:42,614 --> 00:13:45,744 I'm sitting over here, drinking a beer by myself. 233 00:13:45,825 --> 00:13:48,115 And I said, "What about me?" 234 00:13:48,203 --> 00:13:49,663 "What about you?" 235 00:13:49,746 --> 00:13:51,246 I said, "Well, you know, I think I did 236 00:13:51,331 --> 00:13:52,961 a pretty good job undercover. Didn't I?" 237 00:13:53,041 --> 00:13:55,041 And they said, "Man, even a monkey can 238 00:13:55,126 --> 00:13:56,626 buy dope if you give him money." 239 00:13:56,711 --> 00:13:58,671 And I felt very small after that. 240 00:13:58,755 --> 00:14:00,505 I felt very hurt. 241 00:14:00,590 --> 00:14:04,590 However, though, the DEA was there. 242 00:14:04,678 --> 00:14:06,598 And the supervisor pulled me aside, "Why don't 243 00:14:06,680 --> 00:14:08,390 you come over, work for us?" 244 00:14:08,473 --> 00:14:09,983 These are state police. 245 00:14:10,058 --> 00:14:11,768 And I said, OK, I'd love to. 246 00:14:11,851 --> 00:14:15,561 [MUSIC PLAYING] 247 00:14:30,412 --> 00:14:33,872 [CHURCH BELLS RINGING] 248 00:14:48,221 --> 00:14:49,971 I was born... 249 00:14:50,056 --> 00:14:52,176 in Cordoba city, 250 00:14:52,267 --> 00:14:54,347 state of Veracruz, Mexico, 251 00:14:54,436 --> 00:15:02,066 at 9:35 AM in 1961, 252 00:15:02,152 --> 00:15:04,322 on July 31st. 253 00:15:06,031 --> 00:15:10,791 In 1975, I left my house and asked for a ride 254 00:15:10,869 --> 00:15:14,659 to the United States with the hope 255 00:15:14,748 --> 00:15:17,788 of being someone in life. 256 00:15:17,876 --> 00:15:20,336 An honest, fair person. 257 00:15:20,420 --> 00:15:23,260 I believed in the justice of the U.S., 258 00:15:23,340 --> 00:15:25,430 in the good ones. 259 00:15:28,261 --> 00:15:30,221 I believed in America. 260 00:15:31,181 --> 00:15:33,561 My hope was to join 261 00:15:34,100 --> 00:15:36,850 the U.S. Army. 262 00:15:39,397 --> 00:15:42,937 The Army didn't admit me, they rejected me. 263 00:15:43,026 --> 00:15:46,856 I left the U.S. disappointed. 264 00:15:46,946 --> 00:15:49,696 When I went back to Guadalajara, 265 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:53,040 I joined the state police, 266 00:15:53,119 --> 00:15:54,499 to do justice. 267 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:56,080 To do justice for... 268 00:15:56,164 --> 00:15:58,044 all the innocent people. 269 00:16:00,251 --> 00:16:03,801 When I joined the police, I was a very honest man. 270 00:16:29,155 --> 00:16:32,115 On one occasion my partner and I were on patrol... 271 00:16:33,326 --> 00:16:35,866 We stopped to eat some tacos. 272 00:16:35,954 --> 00:16:38,834 Typical Mexican street tacos. 273 00:16:40,125 --> 00:16:44,165 We saw two guys standing there. 274 00:16:45,004 --> 00:16:48,224 And I spotted that one of them was carrying a handgun. 275 00:16:48,299 --> 00:16:50,719 He tried to reach for his gun, 276 00:16:50,802 --> 00:16:53,562 but I told him, "Don't do it or you'll die here. 277 00:16:53,930 --> 00:16:55,680 Hands up." 278 00:16:55,765 --> 00:16:57,265 And I took his gun. 279 00:16:57,350 --> 00:17:00,520 I open the trunk 280 00:17:00,603 --> 00:17:03,233 and find three kilos of cocaine. 281 00:17:03,314 --> 00:17:07,284 And you know when guys like that are connected. 282 00:17:07,360 --> 00:17:11,320 And believe me, I never wanted to mess with Narcos. 283 00:17:11,406 --> 00:17:13,986 Because I knew better. 284 00:17:34,471 --> 00:17:36,641 INTERVIEWER: Why do you want to tell your story? 285 00:17:36,723 --> 00:17:38,773 Why do you think it's important? 286 00:17:39,809 --> 00:17:42,599 I feel I have to do it. 287 00:17:42,687 --> 00:17:47,607 To ask humanity for some kind of forgiveness, 288 00:17:47,692 --> 00:17:54,072 apologize, for all the harm I personally did. 289 00:18:02,582 --> 00:18:05,542 These are real facts that 290 00:18:05,627 --> 00:18:08,547 my enemies want to destroy, 291 00:18:08,630 --> 00:18:10,090 but they can't, 292 00:18:10,173 --> 00:18:12,053 unless they kill me first. 293 00:18:12,133 --> 00:18:13,643 That's why I tell my story. 294 00:18:27,732 --> 00:18:29,112 BERRELLEZ: Southern Arizona was a good place 295 00:18:29,192 --> 00:18:31,192 to start my career as a narc. 296 00:18:35,365 --> 00:18:37,075 We would go from the United States 297 00:18:37,158 --> 00:18:39,198 into Mexico all the time, pursuing drug dealers 298 00:18:39,285 --> 00:18:42,535 and pursuing drug investigations. 299 00:18:42,622 --> 00:18:46,712 It gave me a taste of how things worked in Mexico. 300 00:18:46,793 --> 00:18:48,923 It's like a different planet. 301 00:18:49,003 --> 00:18:50,423 They work another set of rules. 302 00:18:50,505 --> 00:18:52,795 There's no Miranda Rights down there. 303 00:18:52,882 --> 00:18:55,432 There was an occasion where the Comandante 304 00:18:55,510 --> 00:18:57,850 Juan Tapia calls me-- Mexico. 305 00:18:57,929 --> 00:18:59,349 Hector, he says, we just arrested two 306 00:18:59,430 --> 00:19:02,430 gringos with a stolen airplane. 307 00:19:02,517 --> 00:19:05,937 I need you to come over here and translate for me. 308 00:19:06,020 --> 00:19:07,980 So I get there. And one of them right away 309 00:19:08,064 --> 00:19:11,654 says if that comandante thinks 310 00:19:11,734 --> 00:19:14,654 that I'm going to tell him anything 311 00:19:14,737 --> 00:19:17,987 about the plane, he's loco. 312 00:19:18,074 --> 00:19:24,124 I want my lawyer, and I want my lawyer right now. 313 00:19:24,205 --> 00:19:26,115 He was about this tall, little, short, fat guy. 314 00:19:26,207 --> 00:19:28,457 And I says, "Comandante, he says, no." 315 00:19:28,543 --> 00:19:30,633 "I already know what he said." 316 00:19:30,712 --> 00:19:33,052 "Bring him his lawyer. Bring the 'chicharra' to this bastard. 317 00:19:33,131 --> 00:19:35,011 He wants his lawyer." 318 00:19:38,303 --> 00:19:41,603 Well, they grab him, start tearing his shirt off, and take his pants off. 319 00:19:41,681 --> 00:19:43,891 He's standing there naked, and his friend's watching this. 320 00:19:43,975 --> 00:19:45,435 So they bring this cattle prod. 321 00:19:45,518 --> 00:19:48,188 It's got 18 batteries on it. 322 00:19:48,271 --> 00:19:51,361 He says, "This is your lawyer. 323 00:19:51,441 --> 00:19:53,441 Bend him over." 324 00:19:53,526 --> 00:19:56,696 So they just start giving him electrical shocks. 325 00:19:56,779 --> 00:19:59,659 You can see the sparks fly off of his testicles. 326 00:19:59,741 --> 00:20:01,371 "Tell the comandante that I'm ready to talk." 327 00:20:01,451 --> 00:20:03,491 "Tell him, I don't want to talk to him." 328 00:20:03,578 --> 00:20:05,078 "Tell him to sit down and shut up." 329 00:20:05,163 --> 00:20:06,963 Now his friend, "Are you going to tell me now 330 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:08,370 "where you stole the plane and everything, 331 00:20:08,458 --> 00:20:09,878 or you want a lawyer too?" 332 00:20:09,959 --> 00:20:10,999 He says, "No, sir, I'm fine. 333 00:20:11,085 --> 00:20:13,245 I don't need a lawyer." 334 00:20:13,338 --> 00:20:14,758 This is one of my very first cases there. 335 00:20:14,839 --> 00:20:16,589 So I'm learning that this is normal. 336 00:20:16,674 --> 00:20:18,644 They do that every time they pick up somebody. 337 00:20:18,718 --> 00:20:21,508 After that, of course, it became common practice. 338 00:20:21,596 --> 00:20:23,256 All the waterboarding, the beatings, 339 00:20:23,348 --> 00:20:25,348 the cattle prods, and all that stuff. 340 00:20:25,433 --> 00:20:28,233 That's exactly how they worked cases back in the '70s 341 00:20:28,311 --> 00:20:29,561 and '80s, back then in Mexico. 342 00:20:37,195 --> 00:20:41,155 [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] 343 00:20:53,628 --> 00:20:56,418 MIKA CAMARENA: When Kiki first got to Guadalajara, 344 00:20:56,506 --> 00:21:00,336 he went to scout, and he could not wait 345 00:21:00,426 --> 00:21:02,596 to get a case started. 346 00:21:02,679 --> 00:21:05,099 He was not a desk person. 347 00:21:05,181 --> 00:21:09,191 He put all his soul and mind into working undercover. 348 00:21:09,268 --> 00:21:15,068 He loved the action, and so that was a worry to me. 349 00:21:15,149 --> 00:21:17,779 I knew that he was not going to let go until he 350 00:21:17,860 --> 00:21:21,700 accomplished what he wanted. 351 00:21:29,122 --> 00:21:30,502 JAIME KUYKENDALL: I was the agent 352 00:21:30,581 --> 00:21:32,251 in charge of the office there. 353 00:21:32,333 --> 00:21:35,173 Enforcement actions were not our primary purpose. 354 00:21:35,253 --> 00:21:38,423 Our job was to identify traffickers and trafficking 355 00:21:38,506 --> 00:21:40,676 patterns, because we were not authorized 356 00:21:40,758 --> 00:21:43,588 to take enforcement actions. 357 00:21:43,678 --> 00:21:46,558 Kiki was dedicated to his job, 358 00:21:46,639 --> 00:21:48,769 and he was good at developing informants, 359 00:21:48,850 --> 00:21:50,600 at guiding informants, 360 00:21:50,685 --> 00:21:53,095 and using that information to find out what 361 00:21:53,187 --> 00:21:54,897 the traffickers were doing, both in Mexico 362 00:21:54,981 --> 00:21:57,071 and in the United States. 363 00:21:57,150 --> 00:21:59,240 So we were just working on the major 364 00:21:59,318 --> 00:22:01,318 growing and smuggling groups, 365 00:22:01,404 --> 00:22:03,454 using Guadalajara as a trampoline 366 00:22:03,531 --> 00:22:05,951 into the United States. 367 00:22:06,034 --> 00:22:07,294 The traffickers lived and operated 368 00:22:07,368 --> 00:22:08,998 in Guadalajara with impunity. 369 00:22:09,078 --> 00:22:10,408 Nobody bothered them. 370 00:22:10,496 --> 00:22:12,246 It was their city. 371 00:22:12,331 --> 00:22:16,091 They owned businesses, hotels, restaurants. 372 00:22:16,169 --> 00:22:21,259 They traveled in luxury cars, convoys at times, armed. 373 00:22:21,340 --> 00:22:23,260 They all had some sort of an official credential 374 00:22:23,342 --> 00:22:25,512 issued by either the federal government 375 00:22:25,595 --> 00:22:27,215 or the state government. 376 00:22:27,305 --> 00:22:30,595 They all had bodyguards, and we lived 377 00:22:30,683 --> 00:22:31,933 in and around where they lived. 378 00:22:32,018 --> 00:22:35,688 They knew us and had made threats 379 00:22:35,772 --> 00:22:37,772 against some of the agents in the office 380 00:22:37,857 --> 00:22:39,647 and against the office in general. 381 00:22:43,863 --> 00:22:47,413 MIKA: One time, I had gone to the market. 382 00:22:47,492 --> 00:22:52,462 And I see a car behind me that's not passing me. 383 00:22:52,538 --> 00:22:56,998 And so that made me suspicious, because in Mexico, 384 00:22:57,085 --> 00:23:00,545 nobody drives behind you. 385 00:23:00,630 --> 00:23:03,630 And then, all of a sudden, he started to pass me. 386 00:23:03,716 --> 00:23:05,796 He went right along the side of my car, 387 00:23:05,885 --> 00:23:11,465 and they just stared at us, didn't say a word. 388 00:23:11,557 --> 00:23:13,427 That means, we know who you are. 389 00:23:33,871 --> 00:23:36,001 My job as lead prosecutor in the Camarena case 390 00:23:36,082 --> 00:23:40,252 is hands down the hardest thing I've ever done professionally. 391 00:23:40,336 --> 00:23:42,836 The drug cartel put a contract on my life. 392 00:23:42,922 --> 00:23:45,382 I had 24-hour US Marshal protection. 393 00:23:45,466 --> 00:23:47,466 I carried a firearm, a Smith & Wesson 394 00:23:47,552 --> 00:23:51,762 357 Magnum revolver with a 2 and 1/2 inch barrel, for years. 395 00:23:54,517 --> 00:23:58,937 In the 1980s, it was the wild, wild west, 396 00:23:59,021 --> 00:24:01,521 when it came to the drug cartels. 397 00:24:01,607 --> 00:24:03,897 The most powerful, the wealthiest, 398 00:24:03,985 --> 00:24:06,105 the most violent cartel in the world 399 00:24:06,195 --> 00:24:08,405 was based out of Guadalajara, Mexico. 400 00:24:12,118 --> 00:24:18,418 It consisted of killers, drug dealers, corrupt Mexican cops, 401 00:24:18,499 --> 00:24:21,129 politicians on the take. 402 00:24:21,210 --> 00:24:29,090 It was a multi-headed hydra, and it saw itself as invincible. 403 00:24:29,177 --> 00:24:32,137 The Guadalajara Mexican cartel was 404 00:24:32,221 --> 00:24:35,391 run by three very, very powerful, violent, 405 00:24:35,474 --> 00:24:38,144 and wealthy individuals-- 406 00:24:38,227 --> 00:24:44,277 Rafael Caro Quintero, Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, 407 00:24:44,358 --> 00:24:47,738 and Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo. 408 00:24:47,820 --> 00:24:49,070 They ran the show. 409 00:24:49,155 --> 00:24:50,445 They called the shots. 410 00:24:56,996 --> 00:24:59,866 I was in the Metropolitan Homicide unit 411 00:24:59,957 --> 00:25:02,747 in the city of Guadalajara, in Jalisco, 412 00:25:03,169 --> 00:25:06,299 when we heard on the radio, 413 00:25:06,380 --> 00:25:08,970 "All units proceed with caution 414 00:25:10,218 --> 00:25:12,468 to the American Motors Hotel." 415 00:25:17,433 --> 00:25:19,353 When we arrived at the hotel, 416 00:25:19,435 --> 00:25:23,055 I saw our commander with another person, 417 00:25:23,981 --> 00:25:26,321 with Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo. 418 00:25:30,947 --> 00:25:34,527 When we entered the room we saw 419 00:25:34,617 --> 00:25:36,367 that blood was splattered everywhere. 420 00:25:36,452 --> 00:25:37,952 It smelled like shit. 421 00:25:38,037 --> 00:25:39,707 It smelled terrible, 422 00:25:39,789 --> 00:25:41,749 because a body was dismembered. 423 00:25:41,832 --> 00:25:46,592 You couldn't tell if it was male or female. 424 00:25:46,671 --> 00:25:51,051 There were legs, head, arms, all dismembered. 425 00:25:51,133 --> 00:25:54,053 And there were two guys sitting there, young guys. 426 00:25:54,136 --> 00:25:57,056 One I recognized as "El Chapo" Guzman. 427 00:26:01,602 --> 00:26:05,362 He and his partner had committed the murder 428 00:26:05,439 --> 00:26:07,779 and dismemberment. 429 00:26:07,858 --> 00:26:11,448 They were both laughing with impunity, 430 00:26:11,529 --> 00:26:15,159 and they were high on drugs. 431 00:26:15,950 --> 00:26:17,910 And Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo was 432 00:26:17,994 --> 00:26:21,164 pointing his gun at the commander. 433 00:26:22,290 --> 00:26:27,670 And I was pointing my AR-15 at fucking Chapo Guzman, 434 00:26:27,753 --> 00:26:29,843 I had him on his knees, 435 00:26:29,922 --> 00:26:32,302 ready to put the handcuffs on him. 436 00:26:32,383 --> 00:26:36,553 El Chapo's shirt was stained with blood, 437 00:26:36,637 --> 00:26:40,767 he had blood stains on his face 438 00:26:40,850 --> 00:26:42,100 and his hair. 439 00:26:45,229 --> 00:26:47,899 But then we got a call on the walkie-talkie, 440 00:26:47,982 --> 00:26:53,652 by the police radio, ordering us to leave it alone, 441 00:26:53,738 --> 00:26:55,068 and make no arrests. 442 00:26:55,865 --> 00:26:58,325 And then my boss yelled at me, 443 00:26:58,409 --> 00:27:02,119 my supervisor, Mr. Lira, 444 00:27:02,204 --> 00:27:07,384 "Leave him and go." 445 00:27:07,460 --> 00:27:09,460 I said, "How can I let him go, bastard, 446 00:27:09,545 --> 00:27:11,205 aren't you seeing what he did? 447 00:27:11,297 --> 00:27:12,467 He dismembered that poor bastard." 448 00:27:13,799 --> 00:27:16,219 That's where that story ended, 449 00:27:16,302 --> 00:27:19,262 because we were ordered not to investigate, 450 00:27:19,347 --> 00:27:21,267 we were told to abandon it. 451 00:27:21,349 --> 00:27:23,639 We didn't even file a report. 452 00:27:24,226 --> 00:27:26,936 That was the first time I had to release "El Chapo." 453 00:27:27,021 --> 00:27:28,611 I had to eat my own balls! 454 00:27:28,689 --> 00:27:30,269 Me as a state police officer. 455 00:27:34,070 --> 00:27:35,780 What was left of the corpse 456 00:27:35,863 --> 00:27:38,993 wasn't even taken to the morgue, 457 00:27:39,617 --> 00:27:42,537 they went to throw it, 458 00:27:44,246 --> 00:27:47,996 where they had their clandestine graveyard, 459 00:27:48,084 --> 00:27:52,054 which was located at the Primavera forest, 460 00:27:52,129 --> 00:27:54,969 near El Palomar. 461 00:27:57,635 --> 00:28:00,885 That was one of the first cases I had 462 00:28:00,971 --> 00:28:02,641 where one feels 463 00:28:02,723 --> 00:28:05,893 a terrible, unspeakable thing. 464 00:28:05,976 --> 00:28:09,896 I'd never seen a person dismembered like that. 465 00:28:09,980 --> 00:28:13,280 I've never been able to erase that image from my mind, 466 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:15,149 nor will I ever. 467 00:28:15,236 --> 00:28:18,156 [MUSIC PLAYING] 468 00:28:38,509 --> 00:28:40,089 BERRELLEZ: When I was transferred 469 00:28:40,177 --> 00:28:44,097 to LA for the first time, in 1982, LA was a hotbed. 470 00:28:47,685 --> 00:28:50,095 You had the Colombians doing all the big cocaine, 471 00:28:50,187 --> 00:28:53,727 the Mexicans bringing in the marijuana and the heroin. 472 00:28:53,816 --> 00:28:55,316 And there was so much dope that I thought, 473 00:28:55,401 --> 00:28:56,991 I'm going to be able to make some 474 00:28:57,069 --> 00:28:59,529 nice, big seizures here, make a name for myself. 475 00:28:59,613 --> 00:29:01,533 [MUSIC - GLENN FREY, "SMUGGLER'S BLUES"] ♪ You see it in the headlines ♪ 476 00:29:01,615 --> 00:29:03,195 ♪ You hear it every day ♪ 477 00:29:03,284 --> 00:29:04,454 ♪ They say they're going to stop it ♪ 478 00:29:04,535 --> 00:29:06,995 ♪ But it doesn't go away ♪ 479 00:29:07,079 --> 00:29:08,659 BERRELLEZ: It was the era of rock and roll 480 00:29:08,747 --> 00:29:10,707 in law enforcement, where they would give us money, 481 00:29:10,791 --> 00:29:12,631 and we'd drink in bars, and you all have informants. 482 00:29:12,710 --> 00:29:14,550 It was very loose. 483 00:29:14,628 --> 00:29:16,378 ♪ It's propping up the governments ♪ 484 00:29:16,464 --> 00:29:18,344 ♪ In Colombia and Peru ♪ 485 00:29:18,424 --> 00:29:20,514 ♪ You ask any DEA man ♪ 486 00:29:20,593 --> 00:29:22,723 ♪ He'll say, there's nothing we can do ♪ 487 00:29:22,803 --> 00:29:25,433 When you go undercover, you start with little roles. 488 00:29:25,514 --> 00:29:27,854 You start first by just being somebody's bodyguard. 489 00:29:27,933 --> 00:29:29,353 You listen, and you learn. 490 00:29:29,435 --> 00:29:30,805 Also, when you have your informant, 491 00:29:30,895 --> 00:29:32,345 you ask him, how do these guys dress? 492 00:29:32,438 --> 00:29:33,978 You want to emulate them. 493 00:29:34,064 --> 00:29:36,234 ♪ There's lots of shady characters ♪ 494 00:29:36,317 --> 00:29:38,237 ♪ Lots of dirty deals ♪ 495 00:29:38,319 --> 00:29:40,989 BERRELLEZ: Manny was my undercover Chicago character. 496 00:29:41,071 --> 00:29:45,531 He dressed real cowboy-ish, cowboy hat, long hair, 497 00:29:45,618 --> 00:29:50,498 always in designer jeans, exotic boots, the flashy belts. 498 00:29:50,581 --> 00:29:52,751 Manny would get out of control sometimes. 499 00:29:52,833 --> 00:29:54,543 I mean, he'd take no shit from nobody. 500 00:29:54,627 --> 00:29:56,837 He'd put a gun in somebody's face real quick. 501 00:29:58,672 --> 00:30:00,722 ♪ It's the Smuggler's Blues ♪ 502 00:30:03,469 --> 00:30:05,849 INTERVIEWER: How often does the line get blurry then? 503 00:30:05,930 --> 00:30:07,720 BERRELLEZ: It got blurry at times 504 00:30:07,806 --> 00:30:10,096 when you forgot who you were. 505 00:30:10,184 --> 00:30:11,814 Because a lot of time, when you're running with these guys, 506 00:30:11,894 --> 00:30:13,024 you forget you're a cop. 507 00:30:13,103 --> 00:30:14,653 You're having a great time. 508 00:30:14,730 --> 00:30:16,400 I actually got to like some of these crooks 509 00:30:16,482 --> 00:30:17,902 more than I liked some of the guys 510 00:30:17,983 --> 00:30:19,033 that I worked with, seriously. 511 00:30:24,573 --> 00:30:28,293 I remember, one time, they sent me to Riverside. 512 00:30:28,369 --> 00:30:31,999 And they tell me they have a heroin case going. 513 00:30:32,081 --> 00:30:34,581 As soon as I walked into the apartment, on the coffee 514 00:30:34,667 --> 00:30:36,207 table is a kilo of heroin. 515 00:30:38,504 --> 00:30:40,344 These guys are sicarios, man. 516 00:30:40,422 --> 00:30:41,972 I mean, I could tell just by looking at them, 517 00:30:42,049 --> 00:30:43,759 they're bad guys. 518 00:30:43,842 --> 00:30:45,592 And when you're alone with these guys, 519 00:30:45,678 --> 00:30:48,428 and you can see they're standing there with weapons, 520 00:30:48,514 --> 00:30:50,184 you become very fearful. 521 00:30:50,266 --> 00:30:53,556 But at the same time, you have to not lose control. 522 00:30:53,644 --> 00:30:55,484 You have to show them you're still the boss. 523 00:30:55,563 --> 00:30:57,113 You're still in control. You've got the money. 524 00:30:57,189 --> 00:30:59,229 You're calling the shots. 525 00:30:59,316 --> 00:31:01,146 So they said, "Well, you're the main guy, right?" 526 00:31:01,235 --> 00:31:02,775 And I go, "Yep." 527 00:31:02,861 --> 00:31:04,361 He says, there's your heroin, right there. 528 00:31:04,446 --> 00:31:06,116 I said OK, so I started getting it. 529 00:31:06,198 --> 00:31:08,408 He says, "No, no, no. Where's the money?" 530 00:31:08,492 --> 00:31:11,582 I says, "It's in the car. We'll walk down, and I'll give you the money." 531 00:31:11,662 --> 00:31:13,212 They said, "No, we're not going to do it like that. 532 00:31:13,289 --> 00:31:14,959 "You bring the money up here. 533 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:16,880 We'll make the exchange here in the apartment." 534 00:31:16,959 --> 00:31:17,919 And I said, "Nope. 535 00:31:18,002 --> 00:31:20,712 "I'm not going for that. 536 00:31:20,796 --> 00:31:22,296 "Just because the heroin's here doesn't 537 00:31:22,381 --> 00:31:24,171 mean I have to trust you guys." 538 00:31:24,258 --> 00:31:26,218 "I come in here with $250,000," 539 00:31:26,302 --> 00:31:29,142 I says, "you kill me, you cut me up in little pieces, and you 540 00:31:29,221 --> 00:31:31,811 "take the pieces of my flesh, and you feed it to the pigs down in Sinaloa." 541 00:31:31,890 --> 00:31:34,100 I said, "No way, man. We're not going to do that. 542 00:31:34,184 --> 00:31:35,604 "You're going to have to come down, 543 00:31:35,686 --> 00:31:37,226 and we'll do the exchange in the alley." 544 00:31:38,397 --> 00:31:40,977 So he tells me, "No fucking way. 545 00:31:41,066 --> 00:31:42,986 Either we do it here, or we don't have a deal." 546 00:31:43,068 --> 00:31:45,488 "No way, forget about it. 547 00:31:45,571 --> 00:31:48,491 "I don't give a shit how you want to do it. 548 00:31:48,574 --> 00:31:50,494 "We do it my way, or we don't do shit. 549 00:31:50,576 --> 00:31:54,076 "If you wanna be old ladies with your little skirts... 550 00:31:54,163 --> 00:31:56,083 "...and don't want to come out here and be scared, 551 00:31:56,165 --> 00:31:57,205 "that's your problem. 552 00:31:57,291 --> 00:31:59,591 I'm ready to do business." 553 00:31:59,668 --> 00:32:01,048 So I walked out. 554 00:32:04,214 --> 00:32:06,304 Two minutes later, here they come 555 00:32:06,383 --> 00:32:09,603 with the heroin in a gym bag. 556 00:32:09,678 --> 00:32:12,178 The guy says, "Here's the heroin." 557 00:32:12,264 --> 00:32:14,274 And we're standing there, and here comes 558 00:32:14,350 --> 00:32:17,060 the cavalry to make the arrest. 559 00:32:17,144 --> 00:32:21,024 And the drug dealer goes, "Manny, [SPEAKING SPANISH]. 560 00:32:21,106 --> 00:32:23,146 It's the dogs." It means the cops. 561 00:32:23,233 --> 00:32:25,113 And he pulls out his gun. 562 00:32:25,194 --> 00:32:27,154 And I have my hands occupied, 563 00:32:27,237 --> 00:32:28,947 and I see he's going to shoot at one of my surveillance guys. 564 00:32:29,031 --> 00:32:31,161 So I dumped the heroin on the ground, and I push him. 565 00:32:31,241 --> 00:32:33,201 I pushed his arm, and the gun goes up in the air. 566 00:32:33,285 --> 00:32:35,155 I just pulled out my gun, like this, 567 00:32:35,245 --> 00:32:37,405 and I go, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, a whole bunch of times. 568 00:32:37,498 --> 00:32:40,708 And he falls back on one knee, and he's 569 00:32:40,793 --> 00:32:42,593 still got the gun in his hand. 570 00:32:42,670 --> 00:32:44,090 And I shoot him more times, bam, bam, bam, 571 00:32:44,171 --> 00:32:46,221 and then he finally falls. 572 00:32:46,298 --> 00:32:48,298 And he looks up to me, and he says, 573 00:32:48,759 --> 00:32:51,929 "Manny, forgive me, please. 574 00:32:52,012 --> 00:32:53,312 Forgive me." 575 00:32:54,014 --> 00:32:56,104 And I felt so sorry for him, and then his eyes rolled back, 576 00:32:56,183 --> 00:32:57,693 and you can see that glazed look. 577 00:32:57,768 --> 00:32:58,848 He died. 578 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:05,280 I thought, wow, I wonder if he still thought that I was Manny, 579 00:33:05,359 --> 00:33:08,609 or if he knew I was a DEA guy, and that I shot him. 580 00:33:08,696 --> 00:33:10,526 And he was just saying he was sorry because he 581 00:33:10,614 --> 00:33:11,994 knew he was going to die. 582 00:33:12,074 --> 00:33:13,784 It still bothers me to this day. 583 00:33:13,867 --> 00:33:15,737 It bothers me a lot. 584 00:33:15,828 --> 00:33:18,038 Because I always wondered, should I 585 00:33:18,122 --> 00:33:22,042 have waited a little longer before I pulled the trigger? 586 00:33:22,126 --> 00:33:23,786 How's God looking at me? 587 00:33:23,877 --> 00:33:28,257 Yeah, under men's law, I did what I had to do, 588 00:33:28,340 --> 00:33:30,220 but how is God looking at me? 589 00:33:30,300 --> 00:33:32,140 Sometimes, I couldn't sleep. 590 00:33:34,346 --> 00:33:36,266 You start questioning yourself. 591 00:33:36,348 --> 00:33:38,348 But at the same, you have to put this facade, this macho. 592 00:33:38,434 --> 00:33:39,944 It's like, yeah, man, I shot him. 593 00:33:40,018 --> 00:33:42,058 He's dead. I'm glad he's dead. Fuck the guy. 594 00:33:42,146 --> 00:33:44,016 You know, you're talking like that, even though you don't mean it. 595 00:33:44,106 --> 00:33:46,316 Because everybody is patting your back and putting tequila 596 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:48,030 drinks in front of you. 597 00:33:48,110 --> 00:33:50,360 And usually, you drink all night, and you party, 598 00:33:50,446 --> 00:33:52,236 and that's the only way you can go to sleep. 599 00:33:52,322 --> 00:33:53,952 That's the way you cope with it, 600 00:33:54,032 --> 00:33:55,872 and of course, you try to act like, yeah, man, 601 00:33:55,951 --> 00:33:57,831 I shot him like 10 times dude, you know? 602 00:33:57,911 --> 00:33:59,911 Yeah, it was cool, but it's all fake. 603 00:33:59,997 --> 00:34:03,707 [MUSIC PLAYING] 604 00:34:24,313 --> 00:34:27,733 Around the year of 1983, 605 00:34:28,567 --> 00:34:31,067 one of our commanders 606 00:34:31,153 --> 00:34:36,583 asked if I could provide protection at a party. 607 00:34:37,868 --> 00:34:40,498 Upon arriving at the place, it was the... 608 00:34:40,579 --> 00:34:42,369 Aurora Ranch. 609 00:34:42,456 --> 00:34:48,046 There were many armed people and among them, 610 00:34:48,128 --> 00:34:52,758 the commander introduced me to 611 00:34:52,841 --> 00:34:56,351 Ernesto Rafael Fonseca Carrillo. 612 00:34:58,430 --> 00:35:00,100 INTERVIEWER: And what did you know about him? 613 00:35:00,182 --> 00:35:01,642 Naturally, I knew he was... 614 00:35:01,725 --> 00:35:03,385 that he was a Narco. 615 00:35:03,477 --> 00:35:06,017 Everyone knew who the Narcos were. 616 00:35:09,566 --> 00:35:11,646 On another occasion, 617 00:35:11,735 --> 00:35:15,445 the commander asked me 618 00:35:15,531 --> 00:35:19,741 to handle an errand with him. 619 00:35:19,827 --> 00:35:24,327 I was surprised when he took me directly 620 00:35:24,414 --> 00:35:26,674 to meet with the Narco 621 00:35:26,750 --> 00:35:28,290 Rafael Caro Quintero, 622 00:35:30,629 --> 00:35:35,009 for whom I began body guarding loads. 623 00:35:35,092 --> 00:35:39,392 Usually they were 18-wheelers full of drugs. 624 00:35:55,195 --> 00:35:57,735 It happened at the Lebanese Club. 625 00:36:00,534 --> 00:36:02,954 I started seeing some of the people 626 00:36:03,036 --> 00:36:06,746 from the DFS, from the Mexican feds, 627 00:36:06,832 --> 00:36:10,462 from the military police, 628 00:36:10,544 --> 00:36:13,514 from the Jalisco State Police, 629 00:36:13,589 --> 00:36:17,179 -from the 15th military zone... -INTERVIEWER: Who else? 630 00:36:17,259 --> 00:36:21,599 Rafael Caro Quintero, Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo. 631 00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:24,350 They were all introduced to me, right there. 632 00:36:24,433 --> 00:36:27,353 "This is Rafael Caro Quintero. 633 00:36:29,563 --> 00:36:31,233 Don Ernesto, 634 00:36:31,315 --> 00:36:35,145 here is the young man you wanted to meet. 635 00:36:35,235 --> 00:36:40,405 Jorge Godoy, this is Mr. Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo. 636 00:36:40,490 --> 00:36:43,620 They work for the Interior Secretary. 637 00:36:43,702 --> 00:36:47,002 You will be under their command, 638 00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:49,330 do whatever they say. 639 00:36:49,416 --> 00:36:53,586 You will be in armored vehicles, 640 00:36:53,670 --> 00:36:57,260 Grand Marquis. You will be with them. 641 00:36:57,341 --> 00:37:01,601 You will have to show your state police ID... 642 00:37:01,678 --> 00:37:05,638 so they can pass the checkpoints... 643 00:37:05,724 --> 00:37:09,654 any checkpoint, police, military, etc. 644 00:37:09,728 --> 00:37:11,808 And you will be with him... 645 00:37:11,897 --> 00:37:14,067 And you are responsible for Fonseca... 646 00:37:14,149 --> 00:37:17,029 and you can't leave him unguarded." 647 00:37:21,865 --> 00:37:23,365 There was a commander. 648 00:37:24,242 --> 00:37:26,042 And we got along very well. 649 00:37:26,119 --> 00:37:28,459 He asked me one day, 650 00:37:28,538 --> 00:37:30,168 "Do you want to work as a driver 651 00:37:30,248 --> 00:37:32,788 for a federal commander?" 652 00:37:32,876 --> 00:37:34,706 I said, "Yes." 653 00:37:36,171 --> 00:37:37,261 He said, "OK." 654 00:37:38,465 --> 00:37:40,965 He introduced me to Ernesto Fonseca. 655 00:37:46,306 --> 00:37:48,266 When I arrived to meet Ernesto Fonseca, 656 00:37:48,350 --> 00:37:49,770 he was introduced to me 657 00:37:49,851 --> 00:37:51,901 as a commander of the federal police. 658 00:37:55,148 --> 00:37:56,188 OK. 659 00:37:56,274 --> 00:37:58,034 Well, he's a commander, right? 660 00:37:59,236 --> 00:38:01,276 Ernesto and I started talking. 661 00:38:01,613 --> 00:38:04,033 He told me, "You'll be fine here." 662 00:38:04,116 --> 00:38:05,866 "Here... with me you'll be fine." 663 00:38:05,951 --> 00:38:08,291 "Oh, thank you," I said. 664 00:38:09,413 --> 00:38:10,963 After like a month... 665 00:38:11,039 --> 00:38:15,669 I was seeing everything that was going on, 666 00:38:15,752 --> 00:38:17,632 what was happening there, 667 00:38:17,713 --> 00:38:23,093 but I didn't dare to ask. 668 00:38:23,176 --> 00:38:25,386 Then I saw... 669 00:38:25,470 --> 00:38:26,600 Godoy. 670 00:38:28,140 --> 00:38:30,520 Jorge Godoy was there. 671 00:38:31,727 --> 00:38:33,977 I asked him, "What are you doing here?" 672 00:38:34,062 --> 00:38:36,692 He said, "No, what are you doing here?" 673 00:38:36,773 --> 00:38:39,653 I said, "Well, I'm here with the commander." 674 00:38:39,735 --> 00:38:41,945 He says, "Oh, sure, me too." 675 00:38:42,029 --> 00:38:44,409 Then Godoy told me... 676 00:38:44,489 --> 00:38:48,329 "No, you crazy fucker, we aren't with a commander... 677 00:38:51,580 --> 00:38:54,620 He's a narcotics trafficker. 678 00:38:55,876 --> 00:38:57,836 And tomorrow we'll have a party 679 00:38:57,919 --> 00:39:00,709 where you'll meet everyone." 680 00:39:03,717 --> 00:39:06,467 Well, I was.. 681 00:39:06,553 --> 00:39:08,223 I started feeling bad, right? 682 00:39:10,265 --> 00:39:14,725 The next day, they had the party, a birthday party. 683 00:39:14,811 --> 00:39:17,611 Well, Felix Gallardo arrived. 684 00:39:17,689 --> 00:39:19,019 Caro Quintero arrived. 685 00:39:19,107 --> 00:39:21,607 I mean, everyone, all the big names. 686 00:39:23,945 --> 00:39:25,815 That's when I met everyone. 687 00:39:30,702 --> 00:39:33,412 And that's how I started... 688 00:39:33,497 --> 00:39:38,087 my career as a bodyguard for the Narcos. 689 00:39:56,353 --> 00:39:58,653 PHIL JORDAN: Kiki picked me up for lunch one day. 690 00:39:58,730 --> 00:40:02,110 The whole time Kiki and I were together, 691 00:40:02,192 --> 00:40:04,952 we were always under surveillance 692 00:40:05,028 --> 00:40:08,318 by three or four guys. 693 00:40:10,951 --> 00:40:14,961 And I said, Kiki, I mean, there's three guys over there. 694 00:40:15,038 --> 00:40:18,078 You can see their 45's. 695 00:40:18,166 --> 00:40:19,576 What the hell is going on, man? 696 00:40:19,668 --> 00:40:21,548 I mean, do I have to be careful? 697 00:40:21,628 --> 00:40:23,088 He says, don't worry about it. 698 00:40:23,171 --> 00:40:26,971 They're DFS, and they work for the CIA. 699 00:40:27,050 --> 00:40:28,720 I said, OK. 700 00:40:28,802 --> 00:40:32,012 [MUSIC PLAYING] 701 00:40:45,318 --> 00:40:48,448 DFS, very selective in its recruitment. 702 00:40:48,530 --> 00:40:51,240 The creme de la creme got into that organization. 703 00:40:51,324 --> 00:40:53,994 But once you became a DFS agent, 704 00:40:54,077 --> 00:40:56,287 you were issued a credential, 705 00:40:56,371 --> 00:41:02,341 and that credential let you in anywhere and everywhere. 706 00:41:02,419 --> 00:41:04,209 It was a powerful tool. 707 00:41:04,296 --> 00:41:07,626 Several bad guys had these DFS credentials, 708 00:41:07,716 --> 00:41:09,676 including two of the individuals who ran 709 00:41:09,759 --> 00:41:11,299 the Guadalajara drug cartel-- 710 00:41:11,386 --> 00:41:15,596 Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo and Rafael Caro Quintero. 711 00:41:17,309 --> 00:41:19,809 There was no line of distinction anymore 712 00:41:19,895 --> 00:41:23,395 between bad guys and the DFS. 713 00:41:23,481 --> 00:41:26,071 They were all the same thing. 714 00:41:26,151 --> 00:41:29,401 This is what Kiki Camarena had to face every day. 715 00:41:33,158 --> 00:41:36,868 MIKA: It was very, very difficult at the end. 716 00:41:36,953 --> 00:41:40,923 I just had to learn to deal with it, as best as I could. 717 00:41:40,999 --> 00:41:44,339 Finally, I convinced Kiki it's time for us to leave. 718 00:41:49,257 --> 00:41:52,387 When Kiki got his orders to San Diego, 719 00:41:52,469 --> 00:41:54,429 he had a big, old smile on his face. 720 00:41:54,512 --> 00:41:57,022 He was so happy. 721 00:41:57,098 --> 00:42:00,978 I hadn't seen him that happy in a long time. 722 00:42:01,061 --> 00:42:03,101 I wasn't smiling. 723 00:42:05,523 --> 00:42:07,613 I was done. 724 00:42:07,692 --> 00:42:11,112 I wasn't going to smile until we left. 725 00:42:11,196 --> 00:42:12,606 INTERVIEWER: When were you due to leave? 726 00:42:12,697 --> 00:42:14,737 Two weeks after they kidnapped him. 727 00:42:14,824 --> 00:42:17,084 INTERVIEWER: You were supposed to leave two weeks later? 728 00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:18,790 Two weeks after they kidnapped him. 729 00:42:21,081 --> 00:42:23,041 REPORTER 1: New worrisome developments tonight in 730 00:42:23,124 --> 00:42:25,254 the United States' war on drugs. 731 00:42:25,335 --> 00:42:28,255 REPORTER 2: The US government is offering a $50,000 reward 732 00:42:28,338 --> 00:42:30,508 for information about the kidnapping 733 00:42:30,590 --> 00:42:33,470 of an agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration. 734 00:42:33,551 --> 00:42:35,971 Enrique Camarena was reportedly kidnapped 735 00:42:36,054 --> 00:42:38,144 by four armed men in Guadalajara, Mexico. 736 00:42:38,223 --> 00:42:40,103 JACK LAWN: Eyewitness accounts indicated 737 00:42:40,183 --> 00:42:43,233 he was abducted by four individuals, placed 738 00:42:43,311 --> 00:42:44,981 forcibly in the back of a vehicle, 739 00:42:45,063 --> 00:42:46,733 and the vehicle fled the scene. 740 00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:55,700 BERRELLEZ: I remember being at a gym like 4:00, 4:30, 741 00:42:55,782 --> 00:42:58,992 5:00 in the morning, working out, when all of a sudden, 742 00:42:59,077 --> 00:43:01,157 news comes on the screen. 743 00:43:01,246 --> 00:43:03,786 I remember, I was running on a treadmill, and I stopped. 744 00:43:03,873 --> 00:43:07,713 I said, "Oh my God, they've got Kiki." 745 00:43:07,794 --> 00:43:10,634 In my heart, having worked in Mexico, 746 00:43:10,714 --> 00:43:12,724 I knew that the traffickers alone 747 00:43:12,799 --> 00:43:15,429 wouldn't do something like that. 748 00:43:15,510 --> 00:43:18,760 The traffickers do not do anything without the protection 749 00:43:18,847 --> 00:43:21,387 of the Mexican government. 750 00:43:21,474 --> 00:43:25,524 I knew in my heart that if the drug lords 751 00:43:25,603 --> 00:43:27,403 ordered Kiki picked up, 752 00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:29,110 they weren't going to do it themselves. 753 00:43:29,190 --> 00:43:31,740 They were going to use dirty cops to do it. 754 00:43:36,990 --> 00:43:39,530 It was a Volkswagen Atlantic, 755 00:43:40,201 --> 00:43:42,451 a small car. 756 00:43:42,537 --> 00:43:43,457 And it was... 757 00:43:43,538 --> 00:43:44,908 Samuel, 758 00:43:44,998 --> 00:43:46,828 Torres Lepe, 759 00:43:46,916 --> 00:43:48,126 Rene Verdugo 760 00:43:48,209 --> 00:43:50,419 and me. 761 00:43:51,421 --> 00:43:54,631 When Kiki comes out of the consulate, 762 00:43:54,716 --> 00:43:58,466 Rene Verdugo says, "That's him." 763 00:43:58,553 --> 00:43:59,973 Samuel gets out of the car 764 00:44:00,055 --> 00:44:01,845 and tells me, "Rene, come with me." 765 00:44:02,807 --> 00:44:06,347 Samuel had him on the right side. 766 00:44:07,479 --> 00:44:11,149 He grabbed him by the right arm and I by the left arm. 767 00:44:12,942 --> 00:44:16,742 Then Samuel took out his gun and put it here. 768 00:44:16,821 --> 00:44:20,621 He told him, "Don't resist, or I'll finish you right here." 769 00:44:22,369 --> 00:44:24,829 "Alright," Kiki said. 770 00:44:24,913 --> 00:44:27,873 He walked, he was calm. 771 00:44:29,209 --> 00:44:34,589 I didn't feel like he was afraid. 772 00:44:34,672 --> 00:44:36,092 INTERVIEWER: And did you know 773 00:44:36,174 --> 00:44:37,934 that he was going to die? 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