'The Last Narc' details Kiki Camarena's torture: How DEA agent was beaten and violated till he begged for mercy
(Warning: Graphic details of torture and abuse)
Amazon Prime's 'The Last Narc' details the horrific account of DEA agent Enrique S "Kiki" Camarena Salazar's abduction and murder by the Mexican drug lords at Guadalajara and the ensuing investigation that followed. The docuseries has interviews from Hector Berrellez, Geneva Camarena, Jorge Godoy, Phil Jordan, Ramón Lira, René Lopez, Manny Madrano, Conseulo 'Chatita' Berrellez, Jaime Kuykendall, Mike Holm and Jim White.
In Episode 3, the series looks into Kiki's abduction by DFS agents, as explained by Rene Lopez, who was present during his kidnap and torture. Samuel Ramirez held him at gunpoint and told him not to resist and they took him to a large house at 881, Lope De Vega, where Kiki was blindfolded and tortured practically into a coma. Lopez says that it was "like a celebration" when Kiki was brought to the house, as there were around 50-60 people, government officials, politicians and narcos cheering for his kidnap. Kiki was put into a room, with a pool next to it. They were interrogating Kiki about Rancho Bufalo, Caro Quintero's marijuana plantation, which was destroyed three months earlier because of Kiki's surveillance. He was tortured by Ernesto Fonseca Carillo, one of the prime drug lords, among many others.
Kiki was asked, "Who told you about the Bufalo plantation?" Kiki said, "I know I am here because of Quintero. I'm more use to him alive, than dead."
The interrogator left, Quintero arrived, threw Kiki on the ground and pushed him on the ground, using the choiciest of profanities: "We gave you money, and you ruined our plantation."
"We were just doing our job," said Kiki.
The next question for Kiki was, "Who are the politicians involved in drug trafficking?"
"I don't know what you are talking about," Kiki had answered.
In the docuseries, Lopez detailed, "Our job was to stand Kiki up again and tie him. They tied his hands with cords from curtains. He was stripped down to underwear."
On the torture that Kiki was put through, Ramon Lira revealed, "Blows, burns with cigarettes, jumping on his chest, put powder on his face with AK-47 cartridge and lit it up. He was violated through the anal cavity and his ribs were broken."
Apart from Kiki, Alfredo Zavela, the Mexican pilot who flew surveillance over Bufalo was kidnapped too and tortured too. There were tape recordings of the interrogations. Kiki's captors kept asking what he knew about the politicos protecting drug lords. Kiki kept saying that he knew nothing but they would ask him the same questions on the CIA nexus with drug trafficking.
According to the tapes, Kiki pleaded, "Please stop hurting me, don't hurt my family." They said they wouldn't hurt his family, because they hadn't done anything wrong, but if he wanted peace, he had to give them answers. However, they tortured him till he couldn't speak anymore. They sent for the doctor, to revive him and torture again. Medication was administered so that torture could continue. Finally, Kiki fell into a coma. His skull was punctured and his body was wrapped in plastic and dumped outside the small town of La Angostura, in the state of Michoacán.
'The Last Narc' is streaming on Amazon Prime.
