 card number 26 the shocking fate there's got to be torture related oh crap look at that that's trippy you know where this one's going you know where this cable goes beautiful image powerful a shocking fate card number 26 Enrique camera Camarina Enrique Camarina Enrique Camarina was an aggressive DEA agent stationed in Mexico discovering that drug traffickers there operated under the protection of Mexican police officials he made repeated but unsuccessful attempts to alert the Reagan administration to to this fact on February 7th 1985 Camarina was kidnapped outside his Guadalajara office several weeks later his body was found bearing marks of brutal torture while the DEA zalously sought Camara Camarinas murderers going so far as to illegally abduct suspects from Mexico the Justice Department dragged his feet four men were eventually brought to trial and in 1990 were convicted of kidnapping and racketeering perhaps the US was reluctant to press the case because a public trial would have exposed embarrassing riffs between the DEA and the CIA over the latter's crowd collaboration with Mexican drug dealers witnesses testified that the CIA had protected these traffickers in exchange for their help in the war against Nicaragua and had trained contrast on the ranch of Guadalajara drug cartel leader Rafael Caro Quintero one of the men who ordered Camara Lerha's murder also damaging was the revelations that one of the defendants billionaire who won Ramon Mata Balestiros was a drug lord who had worked for US intelligence Mata linked to both the Guadalajara and Cali cartels had used his private airline to fly arms to contra base camps in Honduras under a US State Department grant Quintero and his partner Ernesto Fonseca Carrello were convicted in Mexico of Camara Lena's murder and each was sentenced to 40 years 27 co-defendants were also convicted and given sentences ranging ranging from six to 38 years the DEA and the CIA actually on different sides to a certain degree right I'm pretty sure that's been resolved by now