Red Ribbon Week

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Camarene was working in Mexico .For four and one half years in Mexico, Kiki remained on the trail of the country’s biggest marijuana and cocaine drug pipeline.In early 1985, he was extremely close to unlocking a multi billion dollar drug pipeline.However ,before he was able to expose the drug trafficking operations to the public  he was kidnapped on Febuary 7,1985.On that fateful day, while headed to a luncheon with his wife Mika, Kiki was surrounded by five armed men who threw him into a car and sped away.That was the last time anyone but his kidnappers would see him alive.Shortly after Kikis death, congress men , Ducan hunter, and High School friend Henry Lozano launched Camarena’s club in Kikis home town of Colexico, California. Hundreds of club members including Calexico High School teacher David Dhillon wore red ribbons and pladged to lead drug-free lives to honor the sacrifices made by Kiki Camarena on behalf of all Americans.

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