A relative of the murdered drug enforcement agency agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena filed a lawsuit against the Sinaloa Cartel and three Kingpins on Thursday.
The lawsuit filed in California federal court by Camarena's widow, child and siblings seeks to win the Sinaloa Cartel, which designated a foreign terrorist organization in January, with Zenbanger's Rafael Carro Quintero, Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, Miguel Angel Felix Garraldo and the Sinaloa Cartel.
“It's been 40 years since these men and their deadly criminal enterprises ended my husband's life. He was dedicated to stopping traffickers from flooding our country with dangerous criminals, drugs and violence,” said Geneva “Mica” Camarena, widow of Kiki Camarena in a statement.
“We are very grateful that President Trump has designated the cartel as a terrorist organization.
Camarena's family is using recent terrorist designations for Sinaloa's cartels to use federal anti-terrorism laws to seek the impact of emotional distress related to international terrorism, assault, battery, illegal deaths and murder of DEA agents.
If their case is successful, the court can award the Camarena family assets managed by the Sinaloa cartel.
Quintero was convicted in Mexico for being the ringleader behind Camarena's lure, torture and murder.
The 72-year-old co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, the Guadalajara Cartel, was shipped to the US by Mexico last month, where he was charged with murder conspiracy, drug trafficking conspiracy and several other crimes he faces death penalty.
Carrillo and Garard Both spend their time in Mexico under house arrest in their role in Camarena's murder.
“While Karo Quintero's expulsion to the United States means that the Camarena family is waiting for signs that this painful and concrete act of the Camarena family and the murderer of this beloved husband, brother and father will one day see justice here, Camarena Elsner symbolizes the beginning of a new quest to bring about justice to achieve that.
“Hope for this family is a safer and fairer world, the world Camarena fought,” he added. “We look forward to continuing this fight in court in his honor.”
Kiki Camarena's younger sister, Milna Camarena, also thanked Trump for his “bold actions.”
“My brother Kiki gave his life to protect our community from the tragedy of drugs and violence. These cartels were released in the United States. For decades, we have been in the pain of his loss, but his courage has also spoken out,” she said in a statement. “Thanks to President Trump's bold actions in designating the Sinaloa cartel as a terrorist organization and having Mexico expel one of the people responsible for Kiki's death, we finally have the opportunity to hold his killer accountable in the US courts.”
“On our mother's deathbed, she wanted to live long enough to see this man who was tried in the United States. This fight is for Kiki, for our family, and for all the families torn apart by these ruthless criminals. Justice has been delayed for a long time.
Kiki Camarena's widow urged the Trump administration to consider designating more drug cartels as foreign terrorist groups, allowing other families who have been victimized by them to seek justice.
“Families like me who have lost their loved ones to cartel violence can make the cartel pay for crime,” Micah Camarena, particularly begging the Trump administration to add the Juarez Cartel and La Linea to the list of designated terrorists in foreign countries.
