#DRUG WARS THE CAMARENA STORY ONLINE FREE SERIES#
The Amazon Prime series provides the real backstory of what. The Netflix series details the background of the case and how this horrendous crime unfolded. In 1985, Camarena was kidnapped, brutally tortured, and then executed. DVD release Īll three parts originally ran for four hours. All three series tell the story of Kiki Camarena, a 37-year-old DEA agent assigned to work in Mexico during the 1980s. network news footage of the real Camarena incident in '85, the dramatic scenes in Drug Wars are never anything less than convincing - just as good propaganda should be". Craig MacInnis, in his review for the Toronto Star, wrote, "Interspersed with U.S. Camarena had fought on the front lines of the drug war for years, determined to bust the cartels that pervaded Mexico. Some interesting camera work to be sure, including the video bits and some heightened use of slow motion, but the miniseries' chief strength is its grit, its anger". On February 7, 1985, undercover DEA agent Enrique Camarena (Steven Bauer) was abducted and murdered under the orders of drug kingpin Rafael Caro Quintero (Academy Award winner Benicio Del Toro). In his review for USA Today, Matt Roush wrote, "For a Michael Mann production, there's surprisingly little flash to Drug Wars. Especially effective is Benicio del Toro as the young, illiterate and flaky Rafael Caro-Quintero". O'Connor wrote, "Perhaps not surprisingly, these amoral entrepreneurs provide some of the film's juicier roles. In his review for The New York Times, John J. In a somewhat interesting reversal of roles, in Drug Wars actors Miguel Ferrer and Steven Bauer both play DEA agents while Benicio del Toro and Eddie Velez play drug traffickers in Traffic, Ferrer and Bauer both play drug traffickers, while del Toro and Velez play a Mexican federal narcotics agent and a DEA agent. Christopher Canaan (supervising producer)įact-based story of undercover DEA agent Enrique Camarena who, while stationed in Guadalajara, uncovered a massive marijuana operation in Northern Mexico that led to his death and a remarkable investigation of corruption within the Mexican government.Īt least four of the principal actors in Drug Wars: The Camarena Story later starred in the Academy Award-winning film Traffic, a film that also deals with the subject of the ongoing drug trade between the United States and Mexico.
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