Show Red Ribbon week dedicated to Kid Kiki RED Ribbon Week is dedicated dedicated dedicated dedi dedi- to the memory of of- Enrique Kiki Camarena The highlight of the weeks week's activities will be the presentation presentation presentation presenta presenta- tion of the Kiki Memorial Banner to his ly According to Time Magazine on Thurs Feb 7 1985 Camarena an agent of the US U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration DEA was abducted in Guadalajara M Mexico xico Mexican-born Mexican Camarena joined the DEA in 1974 and transferred to Guadalajara in inJune June of 1980 In Camarena and his colleagues became convinced that corrupt officials officials officials in the office of the Mexican Attorney General were sabot sabotaging ging the US U.S. funded a spraying aerial ri l pro pro- g gram was T This 1 wa I later er proved d when they discovered a acre acre marijuana plan plantation a on growing in a highland desert The oasis of plants was visible from over 20 miles away and could not have existed existed existed ex ex- isted without the complicity of the Mexican authorities Requests by Camarena and his ass associates 0 cia t e s for diplomatic intervention reinforcements and J t y Kiki was killed in 1985 while working for the DEA diplomatic passports to give some protection from arrest by Mexican Federates were ignored In late 1984 a plantation was raided and tons of marijuana were seized This was two-thirds two of the amount US U.S. analysts had previously stated was consumed consumed con con- consumed annually in the US U.S. Fearing retribution Camarenas Camarena's boss James Kuykendall asked again for reinforcements Two men came A few days later they were spotted photographing known drug lord Felix Gallardo Gallardo Gallardo Gallar- Gallar do and were chased off by armed men They left Mexico the next day In Nov of 1984 Camarena put in for a transfer transfer trans trans- transfer fer to San Diego Within a day of his abduction abduction abduction tion approximately 50 DEA agents began con converging on Guadalajara There were about 80 Mexican on the scene by Saturday Kuykendall was unable to convince the Mexican authorities to institute a to house-to-house search or even to question people door- door to Finally on Sunday the Federates hit a few known drug traffickers' traffickers houses All Il were deserted On March 1 1985 in response to an anonymous note Mexican authorities without DEA accompaniment ment raided a ranch owned by the Bravo family Manuel Bravo a former Michoacan state congressman his wife and three sons were killed Four days later Kikis Kiki's body was found in a clearing a few yards off the road behind the ranch US U.S. officials believe this was a clever plot to frame the dead Bravos Ov Over r five years have passed since the murder murder- of Kiki Camarena and US U.S. officials off off- daIs dals still do not know who ordered him killed or why |