#DRUG WARS THE CAMARENA STORY 1990 MOVIE#
#DRUG WARS THE CAMARENA STORY 1990 SERIES#

Mann continues the drug story without the distractions of music-video glitz. A connection between drug profits and the financing of American plots to overthrow the Sandinistas was being noted long before the White House was caught up publicly in the Iran-contra scandal. Beneath the rock music and Don Johnson's fashionable clothes and cars, many episodes were remarkably attuned to the realities of drug dealings in the greater Miami area.

#DRUG WARS THE CAMARENA STORY 1990 SERIES#

Not insignificantly, the executive producer is Michael Mann, whose television action-adventure credits include writing episodes of ''Starsky and Hutch'' and ''Police Story'' back in the 1970's and, the last decade, being executive producer of ''Miami Vice'' and ''Crime Story.'' ''Miami Vice'' was a landmark series in more ways than one. The television story is told, with unflagging sympathy, from the drug agency's point of view.

officials waged their own campaign, in the press and on the streets, to find Camarena's killers. Stonewalled by Mexican - and American - authorities in the subsequent investigation, D.E.A. While the book covers a large canvas, from Guatemala and Colombia to Panama, the television adaptation focuses on Mexico and the abduction and murder in 1985 of Enrique (Kiki) Camarena, a United States Drug Enforcement Administration agent based in Guadalajara. Her basic attitude is reflected in the subtitle: ''Latin Drug Lords, U. The script is based on the book ''Desperadoes'' by Elaine Shannon, a reporter for Time magazine and a veteran observer of the drug scene.

#DRUG WARS THE CAMARENA STORY 1990 MOVIE#

The reasons range from obscene profits and widespread corruption to national interests and geopolitical maneuverings.Ī portion of the discouraging situation has now been dramatized in a sprawling and messy, yet powerful, television movie called ''Drug Wars: The Camarena Story.'' The six-hour NBC presentation begins tonight at 9 and continues tomorrow and Tuesday at the same hour. The current drug crisis provides ample proof that this particular war has been a colossal failure. The United States' ''war on drugs'' was first declared by President Richard Nixon in the early 1970's.

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