The family of the American federal agent Enrique ‘Kiki’ Camarena, an agent of the DEA who was kidnapped and killed in Mexico, filed a federal lawsuit in the US against three Mexican drug traffickers, among which is Rafael Caro Quintero, and the Sinaloa cartel for violating anti -terrorist laws.
According to the demand to which Efe had access this Friday, relatives demand economic compensation for the damages that all of them, both the bosses and the poster, caused with their acts of terrorism by killing the agent.
Camarena, an agent of the drug control administration (DEA), was kidnapped in Guadalajara on February 7, 1985.
The documents presented in the Court, which include the results of Camarena’s autopsy, detail that it was tortured with terrorist methods for more than 30 hours. His body was found on March 5 in a rural area of La Angostura, Michoacán
The complaint filed in a federal court in San Diego on Thursday afternoon also appoints the drug lords Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo and Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo.
In the text of the demand, Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, son of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, and his media brothers Ovid and Joaquín Guzmán López are also mentioned.
All of them, the judicial documents say, formed the Sinaloa cartel that has been designated foreign terrorist organization.
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The lawsuit was filed after the administration of President Donald Trump designated last February to six Mexican drug posters as foreign terrorist organizations, which allowed the extradition of Caro Quintero, known as the “Narco de Narcos”, last month accused of the death of the agent, among other positions.
“The plaintiffs are American citizens harmed due to an act of international terrorism and request damages under Title 18 of the United States Code,” says the text of the demand.
The accused drug traffickers, ensures the legal complaint, conspired to kill the 37 -year -old DEA agent, with “logistics, financing, security houses and shelters, transport, communications, funds, fund transfer, other benefits … All this to support the criminal and terrorist activities of the poster.”
It also details that the terrorist activities of the poster that were carried out abroad against an American citizen and with repercussions to their also American relatives, as a reference to the designation of posters as foreign terrorist organizations.
“This fight is for ‘Kiki’, for our family and for each family shattered by these ruthless criminals,” said Myrna Camarena in a statement cited by the San Diego Tribune newspaper.
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Camarena, born in Mexico, grew up and lived in San Diego, where much of her family still lives.
With EFE information
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