Former Assistant United States Attorney Manny Medrado, who participated in the investigation, provides a great analysis of how to vet the credibility of informants. The documentary relies primarily on the statements of informants who claimed to have varying levels of involvement in the crime. Of course you can Google a lot of that information yourself, but the whole point of a documentary like this is to gather all of the facts in one place so the viewer doesn’t have to do the homework. When evidence is introduced, such as transcripts or photographs, the documentary fails to provide the types of foundational history (where did it come from, how was it authenticated, where can it be viewed in its entirety, etc.) that discerning viewers come to expect from responsible crime journalism. There are a few nuts-and-bolts procedural elements presented in the documentary to keep us respectable recliner-sleuths engaged, but we never get a proper Forensic Files-style breakdown of the crime itself. Geneva conveys her pain in a way that leaves no doubt about what truly matters in this story. His death was a tragic murder not a war casualty. Geneva is a necessary and important reminder that Kiki Camarena was a husband and father who was tortured and murdered by evil men.
and Moscow proxies, it cheapens his memory. When Camarena is reduced to a pawn in a power struggle between D.C. The latter accusation actually got him sued after the release of the documentary.Ĭamarena’s widow, Geneva Camarena, keeps the focus of the show where it belongs, on Camarena’s murder, even when the filmmakers start veering toward the type of international spy elements that detract from the humanity of the people involved. Berrellez is eventually forced into early retirement and threatened with Mexican prison, but not before he pins the blame for Camarena’s death on a conspiracy between Cartel kingpins, Mexican politicians, the CIA and the DEA itself. The detective is another DEA Agent, Hector Berrellez, who was assigned to Camarena’s murder after a distinguished undercover career. The murder is that of DEA Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, who was investigating drug cartels in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1985. Narc follows the familiar structure of a murder mystery and a detective whose life unravels trying to solve it. But the four-part documentary mini-series (available on Amazon Prime) lays out enough damning facts that you won’t feel inclined to give any particular entity the benefit of the doubt. The central premise of The Last Narc is so outlandish that a lot of reasonable people are going to dismiss the show as temerarious conspiracy mongering.
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