Family of slain DEA agent Enrique ‘Kiki’ Camarena details 40-year journey for justice

Family of slain DEA agent Enrique ‘Kiki’ Camarena details 40-year journey for justice

The road for justice continues for the family of slain U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena forty years later.

By María Santana and Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN en Español Mexican drug trafficker Rafael Caro Quintero appeared at a court hearing in New York on Wednesday, where the judge gave prosecutors 90 days to decide whether to seek the death penalty against the accused known as the "narco of narcos." Mexican authorities sent Caro Quintero, who is accused of killing DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena in 1985, to the United States in late February. He could fac…

Mexican drug lord charged with killing DEA agent could face death penalty

Federal prosecutors are considering seeking the death penalty against Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero in a sprawling case that includes the 1985 killing of a U.S. federal agent.

The goal most sought for years by the U.S. government is sitting on the bench today. Rafael Caro Quintero, 72, has faced his first review hearing in the federal court of New York this Wednesday. Old and skinny, who was the Narco Narco and murderer of Special Agent Kiki Camarena faces four charges that, at least, confront him with life imprisonment. Prosecutors accuse him of running a continuing criminal enterprise, a crime that collects another …

US prosecutors weigh death penalty for alleged Mexican drug lord Caro Quintero

By Luc Cohen

By CNN Español No prison is a paradise, but New York's Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) has been described as "hell on earth." Several high-profile inmates have passed through there, including former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández and Genaro García Luna, Mexico's former Secretary of Public Security. Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, leader of the Sinaloa cartel, and rapper and music producer Sean "Diddy" Combs still live there. Two more ac…