![]() I have a lot of faith, and that keeps me going. ![]() ″He gave his full strength and everything he could to combat the drug trafficking in a foreign country. Lawn said in an interview that he considered the miniseries ″about 80 percent accurate,″ while David Westrate, DEA’s director of operations, said, ″There’s a lot of pretend in there.″ Except for Lawn and Camarena, virtually all the DEA personnel depicted in the miniseries are composites based on several real-life people.įor Camarena’s mother, the show brings her son’s work back to life. We all know there is corruption in Mexico.″ĭEA and State Department officials have praised the Salinas administration’s efforts, but the miniseries doesn’t include that recent history.ĭEA Administrator John C. She said she was ″very pleased that the new president, Salinas, is cooperating to end corruption,″ but her daughter said, ″This is based on a true story. ″It hurts for them to say it’s an amusement because when I saw the movie, my heart felt the same thing that I felt when it actually happened,″ Dora Camarena said. Noting that the year-old Salinas administration has convicted major drug traffickers and some public officials in connection with the murders and has sentenced them to long prison terms, Gonzalez Baez said the movie suggests ″that all the Mexican authorities were involved in protecting drug traffickers, and that is absolutely inaccurate.″ The Mexican Embassy minister for narcotics affairs, Gustavo Gonzalez Baez - appointed by the new administration of Carlos Salinas de Gortari that has cracked down on drug traffickers and corrupt officials - said Americans ″are accustomed to seeing this kind of series and they realize this is not reality, this is just amusement.″ The miniseries, ″Drug Wars: The Camarena Story,″ recounts Camarena’s efforts to combat drug trafficking in Mexico, his kidnapping, torture and murder and DEA efforts to pressure recalcitrant and sometimes corrupt Mexican officials into finding the agent and prosecuting those who killed him.Ĭamarena’s mother and sister said they were angered that a Mexican official referred to the miniseries as an ″amusement″ during an interview with The Associated Press following a screening of the movie in Washington. Directed by Brian Gibson, this television mini-series stars Steven Bauer as an undercover DEA agent Enrique 'Kiki' Camarena, whose kidnapping and subsequent murder lead to an intensive investigation. Their bullet-riddled bodies, showing signs of torture, were found March 5, 1985, wrapped in plastic bags and dumped on a ranch 60 miles southeast of Guadalajara. A few days later, a Mexican pilot who had worked with DEA agents there, Alfredo Zavala Avelar, also was kidnapped. Myrna Camarena, 35, said she joined the DEA in March 1974 and her brother followed in June of that year, although, ″He was the one who talked me into joining DEA″ when he was working as a narcotics officer for the Calexico police. Her daughter said she would watch the full show, even though she’s seen most of it in advance and ″I cried a lot that night because it brought back memories.″Ĭamarena’s wife, Mika, has not made any public statements about the show. Her words were translated from Spanish to English by her daughter, Myrna, who works for the DEA in San Diego.ĭora Camarena, who lost one son in the Vietnam War and another in the drug war, said she is grateful to the DEA, to the media and to Hollywood for keeping her son’s story alive. 'Drug Wars: The Camarena Story' is not currently available to stream in undefined. It has a good rating on IMDb: 6.5 stars out of 10. While I rage on about copyright, at the same time I'm no friend of piracy either, from my perspective I see paranoid copyright and anarchic piracy as two sides of the same coin, with most people not getting pirate products most of the time.īut when copyright infringes on law abiding consumers in the case of classic shows not coming out on DVD, I have no sympathy for media companies when people get pirate copies of television shows that were not made available in the first place, with the only people legitimately cheated being the public.″I want a copy of the movie because I’m not sure I can take it,″ she said in a telephone interview last week. 'Drug Wars: The Camarena Story' drama and crime show produced in USA and released in 1990. Due to the greed and inpersonal contempt of the entertainment industry, and the borderline unworkable music copyright in America, many dozens of popular televison shows have sadly not seen the light of day on legitimate DVD (although in Adam West Batman's case it is two or three different production companies squabbling over it's exclusive legal rights).īecause of the easily avoidable blunders made by the studios, no official DVDs or legal downloads of televisions made available to the public would obviously fuel piracy, with consumers forced to get what they want from less reputable sources.
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