Enrique “Kiki” Camarena Salazar was a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent who was tortured and murdered by a drug dealer. Rafael Caro Quintero. The place where the events took place is in the state of Jalisco.
A building of 200 square meters and two floors, built in the shape of an inverted L, is located on Calle Lope de Vega, number 881, in the city of Guadalajara, but currently functions as a kindergarten.
According to the newspaper Milenio, an employee of the current kindergarten said that despite what happened there and how widely it was covered in the media at the time, parents are not told that this was the place where the torture and murder took placebetween 5 and 8 February 1985.
Currently, at least fifty children from wealthy families attend this school. “Today other cries are heard”an employee said Millennium.
According to another interlocutor, the facade of this place has not undergone major changes, since you can still see the same red quarry and brown mosaic. What has been profoundly altered is the interior of the building, just to accommodate the school.
The man added that the kitchen was turned into one of the largest rooms, and for the safety of children, the bathtub was removed. In addition, two ladders intended for climbing up have been removed. They put up fences to keep out strangers..
Four rooms remained from the original building, connected by a corridor converted into classrooms.
At the time of the crime committed by the leaders of the Guadalajara cartel Miguel Angel Felix Gallant, Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo D Rafael Caro Quinterothe house belonged to Dr. Ruben Sanchez Barba.
The doctor bought the house for 70 million pesos from Rubén Suno Arce, son of former governor José Guadalupe Suno and son-in-law of former president Luis Echeverría.
It should be noted that for the crime Enrique “Kiki” CamarenaRafael Caro Quintero has become one of the targets of the US, a country that is seeking his extradition. In addition, Zuno Arce was sentenced by the US government to life in prison for his part in the crime.
Source: La Opinion
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