Cartels, Conspiracies, and Camarena
By Jack Luellen
Listen to a podcast, please open Podcast Republic app. Available on Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
Image by Jack Luellen
Category: True Crime
Open in Apple Podcasts
Open RSS feed
Open Website
Rate for this podcast
Subscribers: 16
Reviews: 0
Episodes: 100
Description
An in-depth analysis of the 1985 murder of DEA Agent Enrique Camarena and the various conspiracy theories relating to his death, as well as the rebuttal to many of those theories in the newly published true crime novel Someone Had to Die. Subsequent seasons will also discuss other conspiracies, historical anomalies, and peculiar events and occurrences.
| Episode | Date |
|---|---|
|
Episode 129: No Death Penalties and the Possibity of Military Action in Latin America
|
Aug 12, 2025 |
|
Episode 128: Updates on Mayo, Ovidio, and Caro and the Turf War Between DEA and HSI
|
Jul 14, 2025 |
|
Episode 127: The CJNG - Los Chapitos Alliance: What is it and What does it Mean?
|
Jun 30, 2025 |
|
Episode 126: The What and Why of the El Chapo Family Members Entering the US
|
May 25, 2025 |
|
Episode 125: Oil Smuggling for the Cartels ... in Utah?
|
May 12, 2025 |
|
Episode 124: The Civil Case of Camarena v. Caro-Quintero
|
Apr 23, 2025 |
|
Episode 123: Inside the Fight for Control of CDS
|
Apr 08, 2025 |
|
Episode 122: The Sentencing of El Menchito and the Impact of Trump's Tariff Threats on Mexico's Fight Against the Cartels
|
Apr 01, 2025 |
|
Episode 121: Extraditions, Extraditions, and More Extraditions
|
Mar 05, 2025 |
|
Episode 120: Are the Reports of the Demise of CDS Premature?
|
Feb 24, 2025 |
|
Episode 119: Remembering Enrique "Kiki" Camarena
|
Feb 07, 2025 |
|
Episode 118: Plea Negotiations, Plea Negotiations, and More Plea Negotiations
|
Feb 04, 2025 |
|
Episode 117: A Conversation with James Kuykendall
|
Jan 07, 2025 |
|
Episode 116: The Re-Arrest of El Min Licenciado and America's Failed Policy
|
Dec 31, 2024 |
|
Episode 115: Was Joaquin's Betrayal of El Mayo Part of a Long-Term Plan by El Chapo?
|
Dec 15, 2024 |
|
Episode 114: Leo Silva and the Los Zetas Reign of Terror
|
Nov 21, 2024 |
|
Episode 113: What Does the US Election Mean for Mexico and Mexico's Cartels?
|
Nov 13, 2024 |
|
Episode 112: The Extraordinary Case of El Azul
|
Nov 03, 2024 |
|
Episode 111: The CDS Civil War -- Scheinbaum's First Month in Office and Rumors of an Unexpected Alliance
|
Oct 30, 2024 |
|
Episode 110: The Trial of El Menchito
|
Sep 22, 2024 |
|
Episode 109: Did Mayito Flaco Declare War on Los Chapitos?
|
Sep 09, 2024 |
|
Episode 108: What Happened in Culiacan and the El Mayo Case Keeps Getting "Curiouser and Curiouser"
|
Sep 02, 2024 |
|
Episode 107: Who Really are Government Witnesses Jorge Godoy and Rene Lopez Romero?
|
Aug 27, 2024 |
|
Episode 106: Neither the Alleged Conspiracy Meetings nor the Witnesses are Credible
|
Aug 19, 2024 |
|
Episode 105: The Camarena Abduction: Reaching Some Conclusions
|
Aug 12, 2024 |
|
Episode 103: The El Mayo Arrest: Reports, Rumors, and Analysis
|
Aug 05, 2024 |
|
Episode 103: El Mayo Arrested: What Happened and What It Means
|
Jul 28, 2024 |
|
Episode 102: The Camarena Kidnapping: The Inconsistent and Irreconcilable "Witnesses"
|
Jul 22, 2024 |
|
Episode 101: The Camarena Kidnapping: The Timeframes That Don't Add Up
|
Jul 15, 2024 |
|
Episode 100: Back to Where We Started: The Conundrum that is the Camarena Case
|
Jul 05, 2024 |
|
Episode 99: A Half Year News Recap
|
Jun 16, 2024 |
|
Episode 98: The Mexican Elections: What Happened and What Does It Mean?
|
Jun 08, 2024 |
|
Episode 97: Mexico's Elections -- What's Really at Stake?
|
Jun 03, 2024 |
|
Episode 96: Maxican Money Laundering in the United States -- Analysis and Proposals for Reform
|
May 20, 2024 |
|
Episode 95: The DEA's National Drug Threat Assessment 2024
|
May 13, 2024 |
|
Episode 94: Mexican Cartels and the Use of Social Media
|
May 05, 2024 |
|
Episode 93: The Arrest of El Mencho's (Other) Brother
|
Apr 29, 2024 |
|
Episode 92: Operation Plaza Strike: The Nogales Plaza and Plaza Boss Sergio Valenzuela Valenzuela
|
Apr 20, 2024 |
|
Episode 91: Ciudad Juarez -- It's History, Cartel Influences, and Future
|
Apr 12, 2024 |
|
Episode 90: The Fentanyl Crisis and the Politics of the United States and Mexico
|
Apr 05, 2024 |
|
Episode 89 -- ADX Supermax -- El Chapo and Beyond
|
Mar 30, 2024 |
|
Episode 88: Bravo Ranch and the Discovery of the Bodies of Camarena and Zavala
|
Mar 15, 2024 |
|
Episode 87: Impacts from the AMLO Investigation Reports
|
Mar 03, 2024 |
|
Episode 86: China's Connection to the Mexican Cartels
|
Feb 25, 2024 |
|
Episode 85: The Many Lives of Los Zetas and Fight for Control of Tamaulipas
|
Feb 18, 2024 |
|
Episode 84: Did Narco Traffickers Partially Fund an AMLO Presidential Campaign ?
|
Feb 05, 2024 |
|
Episode 83: A Fresh Look at Recent Event in Mexico
|
Jan 24, 2024 |
|
Episode 82: A Retired FBI Agent’s Inside Look into the World of MS-13
|
Jan 14, 2024 |
|
Episode 81: The Enigma that is Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros (Part 2)
|
Jan 08, 2024 |
|
Episode 80: The Enigma That is Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros (Part 1)
|
Dec 10, 2023 |
|
Episode 79: The Capture of El Nini and Other Key Recent Events
|
Nov 26, 2023 |
|
Episode 78: Amado Carrillo Fuentes - Who Was He, What Did He Do, and is He Still Alive?
|
Nov 19, 2023 |
|
Episode 77: A 1986 US Embassy Memo on the Mexican Legal System and the Camarena Case
|
Nov 12, 2023 |
|
Episode 76: Using Social Networking Analysis to Understand Mexican Cartels and the Nature and Strengths of CDS and CJNG
|
Nov 05, 2023 |
|
Episode 75: More Analysis of the Crisis of Guns Trafficked to Mexico and the Subjective Nature of the Truth
|
Oct 31, 2023 |
|
Episode 74: Guns In Mexico: Accepting the Disturbing Truths
|
Oct 22, 2023 |
|
Episode 73: US Military Action Against Mexican Cartels: The Threats and the Realities
|
Oct 05, 2023 |
|
Episode 72: More on the Extradition of Ovidio Guzman and an Analysis of the Varied Factors Impacting Cartels and Drug Trafficking
|
Sep 25, 2023 |
|
Episode 71: The Extradition of Ovidio Guzman -- What Happened and What It Means
|
Sep 20, 2023 |
|
Episode 70: Intriguing Observations from Additional Testimony in the Camarena Criminal Trials
|
Sep 13, 2023 |
|
Episode 69 -- The 1990 Trial Testimony of Hector Berrellez
|
Sep 04, 2023 |
|
Episode 68: The Testimony of Lawrence Victor Harrison Part 2 and a New ”Claim” from Hector Berrellez.
|
Aug 28, 2023 |
|
Episode 67: The Testimony of the Enigma that was Lawrence Victor Harrison
|
Aug 20, 2023 |
|
Episode 66 -- The Troubling Trial Testimonies of Traffickers Enrique Plascencia Aguilar and Frank Retamoza
|
Aug 16, 2023 |
|
Episode 65: The Zuno Trials -- A Tale of Two Prosecutions
|
Aug 08, 2023 |
|
Episode 64 -- The ”Secret” Roles of Javier Barba Hernandez and Tomas Morlet in the Camarena Case
|
Aug 01, 2023 |
|
Episode 63 -- An Academic Analysis of the Long-Term Survival of the Sinaloa Cartel
|
Jul 23, 2023 |
|
Episode 62 -- Public Corruption in Mexico and a Discussion of Manuel Bartlett Diaz
|
Jul 17, 2023 |
|
Episode 61: A Brief History of the Mexican Government
|
Jul 09, 2023 |
|
Episode 60: FBI Agent Michael P. Malone and the Science of the Camarena Case
|
Jul 02, 2023 |
|
Episode 59: The Facts and Enduring Questions About 881 Lope de Vega
|
Jun 18, 2023 |
|
Episode 58: Who Ordered the Kidnapping of Agent Camarena?
|
Jun 04, 2023 |
|
Episode 57: Narcos: Mexico and the Camarena Case -- Setting the Record Straight (Part 2)
|
May 21, 2023 |
|
Episode 56: Narcos: Mexico – Setting the Record Straight (Part 1)
|
May 14, 2023 |
|
Episode 55 -- The (Other) Knights Templar
|
May 07, 2023 |
|
Episode 54: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of La Familia Michoacana
|
Apr 30, 2023 |
|
Episode 53: The Indictments of Los Chapitos and What They Really Mean
|
Apr 23, 2023 |
|
Episode 52 -- The Three ”Zs” and the Ironic Downfall of Los Zetas
|
Apr 16, 2023 |
|
Episode 51- Osiel Cardenas Guillen and the Power Move that Almost Brought Down the Gulf Cartel
|
Apr 02, 2023 |
|
Episode 50: The Rise, Possible Betrayal, and Fall of Alfredo Beltran Leyva
|
Mar 26, 2023 |
|
Episode 49: The Tragically Violent Life of El Chapo’s Former Friend and Partner El Guero Palma
|
Mar 20, 2023 |
|
Episode 48 -- The CIA: Black Ops, Narcotics, and El Chapo
|
Mar 12, 2023 |
|
Episode 47: A Perspective on the Evolution of Cartels in Mexico
|
Mar 05, 2023 |
|
Episode 46: The Curious Case of Dr. Humberto Alvarez Machain
|
Feb 26, 2023 |
|
Episode 45: The Trial of Genaro Garcia Luina -- What Happened and Why It Matters
|
Feb 19, 2023 |
|
Episode 44: CDS and CJNG in Europe, the Middle East, and Around the World
|
Feb 12, 2023 |
|
Episode 43 -- The Unholy Trinity: Fentanyl, China and Mexican Cartels
|
Feb 05, 2023 |
|
Episode 42: The Capture of Ovidio Guzman: What Really Happened and What It Means
|
Jan 29, 2023 |
|
Episode 41 -- CDS and CJNG: Past, Present, and Future
|
Jan 22, 2023 |
|
Episode 40 -- El Chapo, Los Chapitos, and the Sinaloa Cartel
|
Jan 15, 2023 |
|
Episode 39 -- Who Is El Mayo and How Has He Survived So Long?
|
Jan 08, 2023 |
|
Episode 38: Who Really is El Mencho and Why Hasn’t He Been Captured?
|
Jan 02, 2023 |
|
Episode 37 -- Hidden ”Gems” in Congressional Report on Mexican Cartels
|
Dec 26, 2022 |
|
Episode 36 -- An Inside Look into the Arellano Felix Organization (Mexico’s Tijuana Cartel)
|
Dec 16, 2022 |
|
Episode 35 (Rev) -- Mexican Cartels: Your Questions Answered
|
Dec 12, 2022 |
|
Episode 35 -- Mexican Cartels: Your Questions Answered
|
Dec 11, 2022 |
|
Episode 34 -- El Mayo, El Mencho, and a Brief History of Mexican Cartels
|
Dec 05, 2022 |
|
Episode 33 -- The SEDENA Hacks: Extradition and Caro Quintero’s Return to Power
|
Nov 20, 2022 |
|
Episode 32 -- Testimony v. Facts: Las Americas Hotel and Manuel Bartlett Diaz
|
Nov 13, 2022 |
|
Episode 31 -- Analyzing Agent Berrellez’s ”Assertions”
|
Nov 06, 2022 |