KAMARENA - Back Around
Please support our local YMCA. We are very fortunate that we have the YMCA connected to our school! They are able to provided needed services to many of families. We have raised $1,299 of our campus goal of $1,500.00, please click on the link and support our local YMCA that gives back to many of our Robo Griffins! Only $200 more to reach our goal. To help meet our fundraising goal, the YMCA will be selling snacks and drinks after school this week.
KAMARENA - Back Around
Please support our local YMCA. We are very fortunate that we have the YMCA connected to our school! They are able to provided needed services to many of families. We have raised $1,299 of our campus goal of $1,500.00, please click on the link and support our local Y that gives back to many of our Robo Griffins! Only $200 more to reach our goal.
If you were still looking to support a worthwhile organization, I would encourage you to help us meet our other giving goal- our local YMCA. We are very fortunate that we have the YMCA connected to our school! They are able to provided needed services to many of families. We have raised $1,194 of our campus goal of $1,500.00, please click on the link and support our local Y that gives back to many of our Robo Griffins!
If you were still looking to support a worthwhile organization, I would encourage you to help us meet our other giving goal- our local YMCA. We are very fortunate that we have the YMCA connected to our school! They are able to provided needed services to many of families. We have raised $1,140 of our campus goal of $1,500.00, please click on the link and support our local Y that gives back to many of our Robo Griffins!
If you were still looking to support a worthwhile organization, I would encourage you to help us meet our other giving goal- our local YMCA. We are very fortunate that we have the YMCA connected to our school! They are able to provided needed services to many of families. We have raised $1,089 of our campus goal of $1,500.00, please click on the link and support our local Y that gives back to many of our Robo Griffins!
So early Monday, volunteers once again set up around a donated dumpster from waste disposal company EDCO, supplied bright blue trash bags and handed over cash as nearby residents returned with packed trash bags.
In 1984, acting on information from the DEA, 450 Mexican soldiers backed by helicopters destroyed a 1,000-hectare (2,500-acre) marijuana plantation in Allende (Chihuahua),[31][32] known as "Rancho Búfalo", with an estimated annual production of $8 billion.[33][34] Camarena, who was suspected of being the source of the information, was abducted in broad daylight on February 7, 1985, by corrupt Mexican officials working for the major drug traffickers in Mexico.
That night, Kiki drove back to the countryside, and began following a convoy of vehicles headed towards the superfarm. The convoy stopped at a restaurant, where farm workers disembarked to have dinner. One of the workers allowed Kiki to join the platoon in exchange for half the pay.
By sunrise, the convoy arrived at Rancho Búfalo. Kiki spent all day harvesting marijuana from the farm. While having lunch, he notices Esparagozza Moreno and Tomas Morlet visiting the farm, and hides from them. However, while leaving, Esparagozza spots him in the crowd and began following him. Kiki gets into the bus and wears the mask given to him before Esparagozza identified him. After getting back to the restaurant, he calls the office, but Suzy tells him that Mika is in labor, and his neighbor Antonio Vargas took her to the hospital. Kiki rushes back to the hospital in Guadalajara, and reunited with his wife after she delivered a baby girl.
The DEA accompanied Calderoni as the Mexican Federal Judicial Police raided all the locations, but were unsuccesful in finding Caro Quintero. The police officers shot up the houses and broke furniture to send a message to Caro. Desperate for information, Kiki agreed to let Calderoni get information from Javier Contreras, a low-level member of Caro's organization. When Contreras refused to give away the location of Caro Quintero, Calderoni proceeded to beat him up, angering Kiki since he had worked him for more than two months. On their way back, Calderoni informed him that Rafael had sent Sofia back home, and it was found that they both were in love and they staged a fake kidnapping. Kiki believed that Rafael might try to contact Sofia again through telephone, and suggested Calderoni to let Vargas, an employee of a telecommunications company, to wiretap Sofia's house.
The DEA agents decide that the only way to focus the American spotlight on Félix Gallardo was to give them the data of the cash he's been pulling from the drug business. Knapp informed them that the Spanish division of the DEA urged the Spanish police to request a wiretap on the Hotel Americas, the headquarters of the Guadalajara Cartel. Since the request was made from Spain and not the USA, the Mexican police approved it; allowing them to get a backdoor on Félix Gallardo's operation without getting approval from Heath.
With the help of Suzy, the DEA team distract the DFS agents stalking the DEA agents, allowing Kiki to stealthily make it to the Hotel Americas. Kiki booked a room, and got into the elevator. Two DFS agents also get in, and Kiki gave them a fake business card saying that he was an agricultural engineer. Kiki got down at the fifth floor and made it to Félix's office and found the ledger. He copied bits of information into his notepad, and as he attempted to leave, saw Morlet at the end of the corridor. Kiki ran back inside the apartment and began to hide, but forgot to close the door. Morlet noticed the open door and wandered inside Félix's office, but did not detect Kiki and left.
The team passed the information to the U.S. Treasury, and find out that nearly $30 million are moved through these accounts every week. Hower, DEA Administrator Francis Mullen called Kuykendall and informed him that the State Department declined to support their mission, as they were more concerned with the Mexicans paying back their debts after the PEMEX crisis.
Meanwhile, the Mexican Attorney General's Office informed the DFS about the DEA's activities in Guadalajara. Salvador Osuna Nava, the Director-General of the DFS, sent a DFS team to attack Roger Knapp's house while he was inside with his family. The DFS family shot down several windows, and also shot down Knapp's car, while his family was left unhurt. The DFS also sent Morlet to ask if Vargas knew about the man Kiki pretended to be when he met those DFS agents at the elevator in the Hotel Americas. When Vargas said that he didn't know, Morlet shot him to death. As Kiki expressed regret over Vargas' death, Sears tells him that Knapp is being sent back to the United States, and the DEA are not sending any replacement. Kiki then decided that the only way to nab Félix was to lure him to the United States.
However, Félix got a phone call from the telephone at the guard booth at the Mexican side of the border, and left his car and walked back into Mexico, angering the DEA agents at the American side. They didn't know it at that time, but the call which Félix got was made by Andrés, the Mexican Secretary of Defense.
Using the photos he obtained after flying over the cartel's superfarm, the DEA convinced the Mexican Army to back-channel a raid. Kiki, Sears and Kuykendall accompanied the Mexican Army as they raided the weedfarm in November 1984, and he briefly engaged in a firefight with Caro Quintero; however Caro Quintero escaped.
With only a few days left till Kiki's departure to the U.S., he and his wife roamed around a traditional market, making plans for their children. On February 7, 1985, Kuykendall invited Kiki to the Camelot, and told him that the meeting went poorly. The Committe decided to not act before the State Department, and recommended the DEA to not take any action against the cartel until further notice. Kiki then left Camelot to have lunch with his wife. As he unlocked his car, Sammy Alvarez, now wearing civilian clothes called him and informed that his commander wanted to see him.
The bodies of Kiki and Zavala were dumped on a road outside a ranch owned by the Bravo family, a family of lawmakers who opposed the PRI party. The body was discovered after the DEA and the Mexican Federal Judicial Police raided the ranch, resulting in the death of 5 civilians. Kiki's body was examined by American Navy physicians in the embassy, and was flown back to San Diego, California, where he was buried with full honors.
This magnificent place is part of the refurbished Bombas Gens factory, which also houses an arts and culture centre. Here, there is a large foyer with a contemporary feel, a private bar where hors d'oeuvres are served, and the modern dining room at the back, with an open-plan kitchen where you can enjoy a final aperitif.Along with seven other chefs, Ricard Camarena was distinguished/commended with the Cocinero del Año award (Madrid Fusión, 2021) for his "green activism". His is a coherent signature cuisine solidly grounded in homegrown vegetables and a painstaking process of research. His set menus convey a clear commitment to sustainability, as he uses every last leaf of the vegetables to make his sauces or even the occasional beverage.
According to testimony by Martinez, the cartel was able to move around three tons per month across the border using those trucks, but Guzman wanted to do it more efficiently. And to understand why he wanted more efficiency, you have to understand what was happening in an entirely different part of the U.S. in the early 1980s.
A lot of this violence was seeded back in the late 1980s. Not only because the cocaine trade was being rerouted through Mexico, but also because the cartels were undergoing an internal reorganization. A whole generation of older narcos was leaving the scene and a new generation was coming up. They were dividing up the old territory, and forging new alliances and rivalries. The new generation included El Chapo Guzman, an enormously creative, brutal, and ambitious narco. 041b061a72