Narcos: Mexico: 881 Lope de Vega (2018)
Season 1, Episode 9
7/10
This is the Netflix version of the story...
28 February 2023
Warning: Spoilers
This version seems to be the one that made the US news media at the time. The Netflix version first has Felix seen as not being to blame for taking Kiki, then it switches to him being fully onboard with the kidnapping and torture. It also says that Kiki was tortured by a DFS specialist, then killed.

There's another version available in documentary form: "The Last Narc". I viewed it on Amazon Prime video. That version lays out the story that Kiki was taken by way of a crooked DEA agent (or more than one) who set him up for kidnapping, and then he was tortured by a CIA agent. The claims in "The Last Narc" come from a former DEA agent who was assigned to the case after Camarena's body was discovered.

The reason that the Netflix version doesn't strike me as being close to the truth is that so much of it just seems contrived. When parts of a story make no sense, I'm prone to dismiss the whole story.

Watch "The Last Narc" for an alternate storyline. It's a more credible tale than the one shown in Narcos Mexico.
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