"Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat
The trial that took place 34 years ago for the murder of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Enrique Kiki Camarena will have to be reopened after a federal judge determined that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) presented false evidence that affected the process, which would imply a new gathering of evidence and witnesses.
MILENIO obtained a judicial document dated March 23, 2023, which reveals that federal judge John A. Kronstadt ordered to reopen the trial for the murder of the anti-drug agency agent, after one of the last two people sentenced for the crime -Raúl López Álvarez, former judicial police officer of Guadalajara, the city where Camarena was tortured and murdered-, demonstrated that his trial was not conducted in accordance with the law, due to a series of irregularities committed by FBI technical personnel.
The federal judge emphasized that even though the charges have been quashed, López Álvarez will not be able to obtain bail and will have to conduct this new trial from a prison cell. And he affirmed that the process must begin within 180 days after the publication of this sentence.
The sentences handed down in the United States against the defendants for the murder of Kiki Camarena, committed on February 9, 1985, were based on evidence that is now known to be flawed, presented by an unscrupulous, inaccurate and corrupt FBI agent, Michael Malone, then head of the FBI's Hair and Fiber Laboratory Unit.
A few days ago, Ken Salazar, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, invited Manuel Bartlett to attend a working meeting in the U.S., a matter that generated controversy due to the fact that for years it has been said that the former Secretary of the Interior and current director of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) could be prosecuted in that country for his alleged participation in the murder of Kiki Camarena.
No fue mi compa CARO si no la CIA el mismo operador quien estuve al frente y presente en la muerte del señor che guevara un camarada de alto rango que en plaza descanse mis respetos y admiración para el juez
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Eres chihuahuillo sinaloense camarada?
DeleteChe G era asesino y mereceidamente baleado en Bolivia.
DeleteMato a torturadores y asesinos. Murio como los hombres. Siempre sera idolo munidal de los pobres y oprimidos, aunque te cale.
DeleteOld news. Kiki Camarena was eliminated by the Cartel and the CIA...Specifically Special Activities Center Ground Branch Officer Felix Rodriguez (he also eliminated Che Guevara in Bolivia). The weed profit was used by CIA to finance anti communist group is Central America.
ReplyDeleteAttentamente el Commandante Juan Rambito
Mucho cuidado!
DeleteYou believe that conspiracy theory? It’s too many holes in that version.
DeleteI don’t think the CIA initiated the kidnapping and murder, but I think they did nothing to stop it and actually helped the murderers during and after the fact. I really doubt a CIA officer would be stupid enough (even back then) to put themselves in the same place where a U.S. LEO is being tortured and murdered. Rodriguez and others probably knew what was going on, but eliminating Kiki was in everyone’s interest so they helped the participants evade prosecution.
DeleteYou watch one conspiracy documentary and now you know the truth. 🤦🏽♂️🤣🤣🤣🤣
DeleteIran Contra turned out to be real . Guatemala (Banana Republic) was real. CIA Mind Control drugs was real . Overthrow of Iranian president to put the Shaw in power was real.
DeleteMichael (the 1st dude) pretending to be a woman is another real theory.
1:24 who invented that word (conspiracy) to use conveniently?
DeleteThe same government who killed camarena and blam3d Caro.
Learn something kid..
1:41 some Cuban that those Mexicans didn’t get along with or like killing Kiki isn’t REAL. It gives relevance to people that weren’t even in the picture or investigation.
DeleteConspiracy is a federal prosecutors best friend and one if not the easiest thing the government can prove against its citizens but the hardest thing citizens can prove regarding their government. All of the CIA dirty work was being done by the DFS who the CIA set up. The CIA has always been involved in the cocaine trade. Plenty of US officials have said so. They’ve even infiltrated the DEA
Delete@6.22. You think the US invented the word ''conspiracy''? You sound like the ''kid''. So much bullshit is written about Camarena, the stuff online is like chinese whispers where 7 articles down the line, each one cannibalising the last and embellishing it, ends up with a myth that doesn't even make sense. Reminds me of that old Second World war joke, where soldiers are sending orders up the chain of command on radios, so ''Send Reinforcements, We're Going to Advance!'' becomes ''Send Three and Fourpence, We're Going To A Dance!'' and the unit gets wiped out. Or the truth, in this case. Hector Bellerez is one man, a bitter ex-employee who was trying to market his security firm, others on that program were being paid, and the final documentary left out so much. I respect Bellerez, but his confusion is still palpable, and if Ex-CIA assets who used to do their dirty cold war work were still involved with the key players that does not exonerate RCQ, or any of them. When somebody tortures a man to death they don't suddenly become innocent if there was somebody else in the shadows who didn't stop him.
DeleteLooking to discredit Bellerez, must be a fed lol… there were also two El Paso DEA officers who say the same thing. People act like the CIA isn’t capable of it. It’s one big mafia… if there been caught a couple of times, imagine how much shit they’ve gotten away with. Like the crack epidemic and Iran contra scandals was the only time they have done shit…
Delete@ 10.34 I'm not trying to discredit Bellerez, I respect him and said so, I am just discrediting that Netflix documentary which got so many facts wrong they almost had to scrap it. I'll admit his endless Media circuit that Netflix insisted on where he flogged his cowboy reputation for his business ventures pissed me off though. But fuck CIA. Those DEA officers you mention are deeply suspect, as is Harrison. The most plausible explanation that even Bellerez admits is possible is that the men above RCQ and Neto had been told that money had been passed onto Camarena when the DEA agents involved kept the money for themselves and were too afraid to own up that they'd kept the money for themselves when shit hit the fan. Maybe Camarena refused and they were too afraid to tell them that, and hoped, like so many do, that shit wouldn't blow up. The interrogators repeatedly ask Camarena about the money he recieved and he has no idea what they are talking about. It happened regularly, that protection racket, and it blew up in their faces regularly too. (The official who tried to offer protection for 1 million dollars to El Hummer by pretending the army were on him but he could protect him is a cautionary tale lol. Hummer just snatched his boss who told him it was all bollocks.) It's why so many Narcos said they had the backing of the DEA or CIA when they got caught, but couldn't name a single one of them- it all went through a politician who used it to justify the millions he was charging for fake protection by saying he had the backing of the Gringos. Anyway, I'm not pretending I know what happened, just that the CIA link is exaggerated in this case, that Rodriguez wasn't CIA at the time, and nothing points to RCQ being innocent, just that he had accomplices with more political power on both sides of the border that haven't been charged yet.
DeleteNo bail, quashed charges = double FU for talking
ReplyDeleteThey can still prosecute him for the original charges. Overturning a conviction doesn’t mean you get off scot-free. However, in a case this old it may mean that the prosecution decides to dismiss the charges.
DeleteIt's been known but gringos kept denying it. Just like they deny destabilizing Mexico for financial gains. War on drugs is as fake and only brai washed duties believe it
ReplyDeleteThe US makes more money off legal trade with Mexico than the drug trade. The US wastes a lot of money making sure Mexico is as stable as can be (because legal trade makes more money than the drug trade). Mexico can never threaten the US, no matter how strong they become. How do you believe what you think?
Delete6:17 the US is greedy and wants to make legal and illegal money.
DeleteIllegal drug trafficking Is Wirth billions every year.
You act like you don't know about what the military did to Afghanistan.
Maybe you don't know what really went down over there but I will tell you this. There was no weapons of Nass destruction or terrorist, just locals protecting their country from invaders
8:14, drug trade is worth billions but those billions are peanuts compared to the legal economics.
DeleteIrak was mostly MWDs but not Afghanistan.
@11.00. Bang on. Illegal drug trafficking might be worth billions every year, but the instability it brings to legitimate investment (Oil, mining), which CIA is really there to protect now the Cold War is over would mean they were getting a cut of those Billions but, while they pocketed that money, they would be losing Trillions AND losing US power and influence on the ground in Mexico because the US investment strategies depend on stability. The fight for central America is over.
DeleteCartels operate in California.
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/jpNtnPzc7fU
Yes
DeleteOld news chief
Delete3:00 That's right. That's why I didn't say it was new. I posted it as response to those who say "cartels won't operate here".
DeleteSo a propaganda video put out by law enforcement to say "cartels operate" in CA is your go to?... I bet you still believe Fauci...Cartels have a presence but this video is just bs.
Delete@11.50 Every Sheriff and department looking for increased funding calls a drug case ''cartel related'' if anybody involved is Hispanic or has a tattoo. Dunno what u mean about Fauci though lol. Very strange that you would see through one lazy thing and fall for another.
Deletehttps://nypost.com/2014/07/21/discredited-ex-fbi-agent-hired-back-as-a-private-contractor-years-later/
ReplyDeleteChief what does hair and fiber have to do with drug trafficking or anything on this site ?
Delete"The sentences handed down in the United States against the defendants for the murder of Kiki Camarena, committed on February 9, 1985, were based on evidence that is now known to be flawed, presented by an unscrupulous, inaccurate and corrupt FBI agent, Michael Malone, then head of the FBI's Hair and Fiber Laboratory Unit."
DeleteThx for the link and to 7:14, did you even read the article?
DeleteDEA Drug War vs CIA War against Communism!
ReplyDeleteAttn.P@RR@ND3RO
Free Rafa!
ReplyDelete@11.31 YES! Free him, then take him to a compound, tie him to a post and let the children of the innocent American film workers he tortured and murdered, along with the children of the 4 Jehovas witnesses naive enough to go door to door who ended up unable to get a proper burial after they were raped and murdered decide what to do with him. Or even better, the mothers of the Mexican kids he tortured because they fucked up and he was terrified of looking weak. The problem with that scenario is he would pull his ''dignified humble old gentleman'' face and they would show him mercy, something he always viewed as weakness.
DeleteNo disrespect, but camarena did his job TOO well. He had uncovered very high levels of corruption. On top of that he also stumbled upon the CIA contra arming and training operations (which is fine for Americas best interest) but he was going to expose a lot of dirty laundry . The cartels were complicit in his killing , but let’s be honest camarena was going to spoil a lot in regards to information and money being generated for the war against the reds
ReplyDeleteLol. Kiki is Caro Quintero.
Delete@11.42 The war against the ''Reds''? You mean ragged bands of peasants who had voted for land reform so they would no longer be brutalized? And then, when US interests who ''gave them'' democracy didn't like it that they wanted to be able to feed their families with their own work on their own land, they sent in hit squads to slaughter entire villages? You love ''Freemon Moxy'', as long as the people you ''free'' don't vote in their own interests. You can't honestly look back on Nicaragua and El Salvador and the slaughter there and pretend it was a war against ''Reds''? Besides, Kiki discovered nothing that jeopardised anything. Even the El Buffalo bust wasn't down to him.
Deleteheres more conspiracy for you https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/donald-trump-mexico-military-cartels-war-on-drugs-1234705804/
ReplyDeleteSol Prendido, that last paragraph was very interesting. Not too long ago, it was announced that Manuel Bartlett Diaz was under investigation for the Camarena murder. Do you think the invitation could be a ruse to have him arrested in the United States? He could already have a sealed indictment
ReplyDeleteMost likely yes. The Camarena family deserves justice and closure. Otherwise it's a very demoralizing thing for all federal agents in the US to not see all guilty parties fully prosecuted. I for one would hesitate to do my job if I'm not being fully supported by my colleagues.
DeleteLet’s hope so. It was sad when Salvador Cienfuegos was cut loose, let’s hope this time they keep the big fish.
DeleteJoe arpaio knows what they did to em!! CIA shut him down because he discovered el bufalo and how organized this “cartel” was the US had so many assets in mexico el negro durazo being one of the most notorious
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