Enrique Camarena
The below article by the San Diego Union Tribune is reporting that a school in Chula Vista, California has been named for DEA Special Agent Enrique Camarena.
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/apr/11/chula-vista-school-named-fallen-dea-agent-enrique-/?print&page=all
Enrique Camarena was a DEA agent stationed in Guadalajara, Mexico in 1985 when he and an informant/pilot were kidnapped, tortured for several day,s and murdered by cartel drug traffickers assisted by some Mexican police officers. I have previously posted an article about him in linking the Enrique S Camarena Educational Foundation on this site.
DEA has lost its share of agents over the years, but it was the circumstances of this horrific murder that hit our community especially hard. I did not know Camarena, but like other DEA agents, this one has always remained with me. I was stationed in Milan, Italy at the time, and there was a husband-wife State Department couple working in the consulate where I also worked. They had previously been stationed in Guadalajara and knew Camarena. When we got the teletype announcing the discovery of the bodies, I had to give them the bad news.
Similarly, one of my old friends from DEA in Thailand was working in Istanbul at the time. His secretary was Kiki's sister. He had to go to her home in the wee hours of the morning and inform her.
By the way, for all you pot smokers and advocates out there. Why were Camarena and his pilot targeted for murder? Shortly before, they had aerially located a massive marijuana plantation in Mexico, which was subsequently raided by Mexican police. Food for thought.
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