Slain DEA agent’s family suing Mexican cartel 40 years later after terror designation
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Forty years after his death, the widow and sons of DEA special agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena are taking the Sinaloa Cartel to court - seeking financial compensation from living members of the drug trafficking organization and counting on President Donald Trump’s designation of some cartels as terror groups.
When Dora Camarena was on her deathbed in 2021, her family recalls she wished to have lived long enough to see the Mexican cartel that killed her son pay for what it did. Forty years after his killing, the widow and sons of DEA special agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena are taking the Sinaloa Cartel to court – seeking financial compensation from living members of the drug trafficking organization, and counting on President Donald Trump’s designation of some cartels as terror groups. “For decades, we have carried the pain of his loss, but also his courage,” recounts Myrna Camarena, the slain agent’s sister said in a statement. “Justice is long overdue, and we will not stop until it is served.” In a federal lawsuit filed Thursday in the U.S. Southern District of California, Geneva Camarena, her sons, and other family members, are suing former heads of the Sinaloa and Guadalajara Cartels - which according to court documents, merged in the 1970s. The Sinaloa cartel, named after the Mexican state where it was formed, is one of the oldest and most established drug trafficking groups in Mexico. It has long supplied much of the marijuana, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and fentanyl peddled on US streets, according to a 2022 Congressional Research Service report. In the civil complaint, the Camarenas seek compensation for “substantial physical, emotional, and psychological damages inflicted” since February 7, 1985, when agent Camarena was kidnapped, tortured, and killed while working undercover in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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