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This edit [1] changes the article so that we now describe Amazon's documentary as "fictional" in wikivoice, using WP:PRIMARY sources hosted at the personal advocacy website http://www.reneverdugo.org. The primary sourced documents were created 20 years before the production of the documentary. Reliable sourcing policy available here ( WP:PSTS) explains that high-quality secondary or tertiary sources are the best sources to be used on Wikipedia, and in this case we already have those available to us, including recent sources, some of which are about the documentary [2] [3] [4], and some of which reference the same events [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]. - Darouet ( talk) 14:12, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
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De facto whole TV series is based on a testimonies of these three witnesses: Jorge Godoy, Rene Lopez, Ramon Lira. They say, what they saw in 1985.
- At trial in 1992, they said there have never been any involvement of CIA.
- At article Blood in the Corns 2013, they suddenly say that CIA was involved.
- At The Last Narc in 2020, they suddenly say not only CIA was involved, but now also James Kuykendall.
So it absolutely doesn't matter, from which year is a source. They simply always say what they allegedly saw. Ask yourself, why these 3 witnesses change their testimonies, despite they have no new info.
I respect that Wiki has some rules. I don't know them, so I will not edit anything again. I'm not a wikipedian to talk about primary or secondary sources. But I'm a 'narco-journalist' who knows that The Last Narc is a fiction, which has been made only for Amazon's and Berrellez' profit. So I will give you some info a do with it, what you want.
Lie number 1: Félix Gallardo put a contract on Berrellez' head. Reality: It was different and less known trafficker. Source - Berrellez himself ( here).
Lie number 2: Before Berrellez' assignment to Leyenda in 1989, DEA didn't have any witness of a torture and murder of Camarena. Reality: DEA kidnapped Rene Verdugo in 1986 and arrested Raul Lopez Alvarez in 1987. They both have been sentenced for Camarena's murder. Source - can be googled anywhere.
Lie number 3: Cuban Felix Rodriguez from CIA interrogated Camarena. Reality: a) DEA agent Robert Castillo made analysis of interrogator's voice and he identified Sergio Espino Verdin. Source - Castillo's testimony at a trial (starting at page 150). b) DEA agent Dale Stinson made analysis of interrogator's voice and he identified Sergio Espino Verdin too. Source - Stinson's testimony at a trial (same link, starting at page 222). c) DEA agent David Herrera translated tapes from Camarena's torture and according to him, interrogator was a Mexican and not Cuban. Source here. c) Even Jorge Godoy himself said at a trial that the interrogator was Sergio Espino Verdin. Source here at page 182. d) Moreover Berrellez' partner, DEA agent Salvador Leyva, who wrote and debriefed most of the informants in the Leyenda investigation, said that these 3 witnesses never said anything about CIA. Source here. By the way, here is a screenshot of Lira's, Godoy's and Lopez' testimonies, which are really signed by Leyva and Berrellez.
Lie number 4: DEA's director Jack Lawn instructed Berrellez to kidnap dr. Alvarez Machain, it would cost $250,000. Reality: It cost $50,000, Mexican Garate Bustamante told Berrellez about the possibility of kidnapping Alvarez Machain - Berrellez agreed and just received authorization from his DEA's office in LA and DEA Deputy Administrator Peter Gruden. Source - Berrellez himself here (starting at page 26) and here.
There are other and other lies. Somebody made some deeply analysis of The Last Narc with list of evidence - here. I was even able to find another lies during the watching The Last Narc. I think you noticed that it is not about credibility of source A AGAINST credibility of source B. It is about testimony of person A in year X AGAINST testimony of same person A in year Y. In other words, until 2013, nobody ever said anything about involvement of CIA in Camarena's murder. And from 2013 to 2020, there are only 3 people, who allegedly saw CIA agent torturing Camarena in 1985 and Berrellez everytime repeat their testimonies. But these 3 people already gave official testimonies at trial, we still can read it ( Lira, Lopez, Godoy) and they never mentioned CIA. Did you also know that John Massaria, co-producer of The Last Narc said that Kuykendall was fired from DEA in 1985 few days after Camarena's abduction because he was trying to destroy whole DEA's investigation of Camarena, despite Kuykendall actually worked for DEA until 1989? Did you also know that current Leyenda supervisor made many calls to Amazon that The Last Narc makes false accusations, but they have never answered him? Do you think it is sign of quality journalism? Sign of credible documentary? Do you really think that director Tiller Russell made 14 years of Camarena's murder for this TV series? Read Blood on the Corn from 2013, they simply recycled all those informations + they added accusation that Kuykendall sold Camarena. Ask yourself, why these 3 witnesses never mentioned Kuykendall, for 35 years. Until moment, when Berrellez published his new book. Very short after Kuykendall became little famous thanks to Netflix' Narcos.
I'd write here for all day, how this show has nothing to do with a reality, but at least I posted few big examples. I just wanted to help. But do, what you want. SaintSanti ( talk) 23:58, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
Wiki rules - I don't want to contribute at Wiki, so I honestly don't care about Wiki's rules. But Wiki has some rules, you want to follow them, so I'm absolutely fine with that. I respect it.
Anyway, let me talk about that story again.
1) Do you think that Rene Verdugo's lawyer did falsify all those tons of material? Or are those scanned documents real and they are credible source? (I mean credible in our story, not by wiki's rules).
2) There are four people who allegedly know that CIA's agent was torturing Camarena. Calderoni, Godoy, Lopez, Lira.
- Calderoni: there has never been any interview with him, where he tells that. Only Berrellez says that Calderoni told him that CIA killed Camarena. And Berrellez made this statement only after Calderoni's murder. How credibly is this statement?
- Godoy, Lopez, Lira. If we assume that all those documents from 1992 are real, so we all can see that they all lie. Did they lie in 1992 at trial? Or did they lie in 2020 for TV show? Or in both cases? I think they have never said anything about CIA until The Last Narc in 2020, after 35 years. Berrellez himself made this accusation for the first time in 2013, after 28 years. He simply use them as a source of his claims. How credibly is their statement?
3) Another DEA agent, Salvador Leyva, who interrogated Godoy, Lopez and Lira together with Berrelez says that they have never said anything about CIA. By the way, we can even see signatures of both agents under Godoy's, Lira's and Lopez' testimonies. So now, who is lying? Who is more credible? Leyva, whos opinion is constant? Or Berrellez, who changes his testimony?
4) Berrellez became Leyenda supervisor in 1989. There were four different supervisors prior that. And there were many other after Berrellez (Leyenda investigation even runs until these days). And nobody ever made same claims like Berrellez. Very fist Leyenda supervisor said that Berrellez is a liar, very last Leyenda supervisor made many calls to Amazon that the show is a fake. So who should we believe? One agent Berrellez, who made shocking claim 28 years after Camarena's murder? Or all other agents, including his own partner or another Leyenda supervisors?
5) Credibility of Berrellez: according to three FBI's polygraph tests, Berrellez (and Manny Medrano) instructed witness to lie at a trial. And it wasn't the only witness who made this claim. Berrellez once said that Salcido Uzeta put a contract on his head, and for The Last Narc, he said that it was Felix Gallardo. Did he lie in Salcido's case, or in Felix' case? It's not about quality of sources, it's about that we can compare his own words with statements in past.
Berrellez said that DEA had no witness of Camarena's murder when he take over Leyenda investigation. I'm sorry, but even if you ignore everything what I say, you simply MUST agree that it is a pure lie. This claim from The Last Narc is a false. And even if only this is the only one lie from the whole TV Show, this documentary simply can't be marked as a true, without any notes, comments, critics or anything like that. Prior Berrellez' work as a Leyenda supervisor in 1989, DEA simply HAD TWO WITNESSES (Rene Verdugo and Raul Lopez Alvarez) and they BOTH have been SENTENCED for Camarena's murder! That's simply a fact, which can be verified at any source on the internet.
Berrellez simply many times glorified himself. He many times denied his own claims from the past. But even if you disagree, you simply can't ignore the previous paragraph.
There have never been any single DEA agent who identified Camarena's interrogator as a Cuban, or moreover CIA agent. I can repeat again that even Godoy himself told that the interrogator was Espino Verdin from DFS, but he changed his testimony for the first time in 2020 for the TV show. No agent ever said that Camarena investigated CIA in Veracruz. On the one hand there is a one single DEA agent, who many times denied himself, and who is a proven liar. On the other hand, there are all other DEA agents. Including man, who interrogated same witnesses.
Is it fair to make an article, which is only based on a claim one single person with very questionable credibility?
Wouldn't be fair to at least mention also the opinion of other Leyenda supervisors, his partner Leyva, or DEA voice analytics? Not to mention that Berrellez, as I said, denied even himself.. SaintSanti ( talk) 20:05, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
"Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced and not related to making content choices should be removed, deleted, or oversighted, as appropriate... BLP applies to all material about living persons anywhere on Wikipedia, including talk pages."
Anyway..: Experts = DEA agents and witnesses. One DEA agent and his 3 three witnesses say - CIA or Kuykendall killed Camarena X other DEA agents working with different (or even same) witnesses say - CIA or Kuykendall didn't kill Camarena. This is what experts (insiders) say. So I personally think it would be fair to give both of these groups the opportunity to be 'heard' in the article. And to be honest, despite I'm pretty sure that this TV show is a pure fiction made only for a profit, to call this show a 'fiction' is maybe too much. Some of the claims are truth, some are questionable. And some are false. Berrellez' claim that DEA had no witness before 1989 is a lie, isn't it? And at least because this case, I also think we can't call this show as a fully 'true'. SaintSanti ( talk) 23:12, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
Recent changes [11] now describe the 2020 Amazon docuseries The Last Narc (TV series) as "fictional" in WP:WIKIVOICE, mostly based on links to primary documents from the 1990s housed at http://www.reneverdugo.org.
Furthermore, a one-paragraph "background" section has been proposed (see text here [12]), using academic and newspaper sources that don't reference The Last Narc, but are on the same topic and present similar conclusions.
Comments are appreciated. - Darouet ( talk) 17:06, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
The four-part series, released in July, tells the true story of Enrique “Kiki” Camarena...""Collider" uses similar language [15]:
"The Last Narc aims to tell the true story of who this fallen hero really was, and what really happened to him once he made life difficult for drug cartels."The docuseries doesn't involve any acting or fictional recreations, for instance: just interviews with those involved. I think if we write "fictional elements" we need a citation and need to be specific about what's fictional. - Darouet ( talk) 22:20, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
Hey men, I'm sorry that I started all of this. It seems it is only my fault :( I want to be fair:
I won't tell how I think this series should be called. I'm not English-native speaker and I don't know Wiki rules. But if word 'docuseries' doesn't automatically mean that given TV series is 100% true, then I personally would accept it without any problem. I'm sorry that I'm writing it again, but if you are gloryfying yourself with claim "before I started to investigate this case, DEA had no witness of Camarena's murder", but in reality DEA had two guys who has been sentenced for murder of Camarena, one simply can't mark this show as a 100% true (not to mention other claims).
So if whole article is in a way: The Last Narc says ABC; but there are also critics and they say XYZ, I'm totally fine. Prior to my stupid edit, there wasn't any section reserved for the critics (except Kuykendall's plaint).
If I would be allowed to say, what should roughly be written in the section for the critics, I'd say:
I'm sorry, but the official documents from the trial are perfectly credible. But if you don't want to use them because Wiki's rules, I absolutely understand you and respect it. In that case, you can use any article from LA Times or NY Times, they are still online.
Sorry, men! SaintSanti ( talk) 22:32, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
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This edit [1] changes the article so that we now describe Amazon's documentary as "fictional" in wikivoice, using WP:PRIMARY sources hosted at the personal advocacy website http://www.reneverdugo.org. The primary sourced documents were created 20 years before the production of the documentary. Reliable sourcing policy available here ( WP:PSTS) explains that high-quality secondary or tertiary sources are the best sources to be used on Wikipedia, and in this case we already have those available to us, including recent sources, some of which are about the documentary [2] [3] [4], and some of which reference the same events [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]. - Darouet ( talk) 14:12, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
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De facto whole TV series is based on a testimonies of these three witnesses: Jorge Godoy, Rene Lopez, Ramon Lira. They say, what they saw in 1985.
- At trial in 1992, they said there have never been any involvement of CIA.
- At article Blood in the Corns 2013, they suddenly say that CIA was involved.
- At The Last Narc in 2020, they suddenly say not only CIA was involved, but now also James Kuykendall.
So it absolutely doesn't matter, from which year is a source. They simply always say what they allegedly saw. Ask yourself, why these 3 witnesses change their testimonies, despite they have no new info.
I respect that Wiki has some rules. I don't know them, so I will not edit anything again. I'm not a wikipedian to talk about primary or secondary sources. But I'm a 'narco-journalist' who knows that The Last Narc is a fiction, which has been made only for Amazon's and Berrellez' profit. So I will give you some info a do with it, what you want.
Lie number 1: Félix Gallardo put a contract on Berrellez' head. Reality: It was different and less known trafficker. Source - Berrellez himself ( here).
Lie number 2: Before Berrellez' assignment to Leyenda in 1989, DEA didn't have any witness of a torture and murder of Camarena. Reality: DEA kidnapped Rene Verdugo in 1986 and arrested Raul Lopez Alvarez in 1987. They both have been sentenced for Camarena's murder. Source - can be googled anywhere.
Lie number 3: Cuban Felix Rodriguez from CIA interrogated Camarena. Reality: a) DEA agent Robert Castillo made analysis of interrogator's voice and he identified Sergio Espino Verdin. Source - Castillo's testimony at a trial (starting at page 150). b) DEA agent Dale Stinson made analysis of interrogator's voice and he identified Sergio Espino Verdin too. Source - Stinson's testimony at a trial (same link, starting at page 222). c) DEA agent David Herrera translated tapes from Camarena's torture and according to him, interrogator was a Mexican and not Cuban. Source here. c) Even Jorge Godoy himself said at a trial that the interrogator was Sergio Espino Verdin. Source here at page 182. d) Moreover Berrellez' partner, DEA agent Salvador Leyva, who wrote and debriefed most of the informants in the Leyenda investigation, said that these 3 witnesses never said anything about CIA. Source here. By the way, here is a screenshot of Lira's, Godoy's and Lopez' testimonies, which are really signed by Leyva and Berrellez.
Lie number 4: DEA's director Jack Lawn instructed Berrellez to kidnap dr. Alvarez Machain, it would cost $250,000. Reality: It cost $50,000, Mexican Garate Bustamante told Berrellez about the possibility of kidnapping Alvarez Machain - Berrellez agreed and just received authorization from his DEA's office in LA and DEA Deputy Administrator Peter Gruden. Source - Berrellez himself here (starting at page 26) and here.
There are other and other lies. Somebody made some deeply analysis of The Last Narc with list of evidence - here. I was even able to find another lies during the watching The Last Narc. I think you noticed that it is not about credibility of source A AGAINST credibility of source B. It is about testimony of person A in year X AGAINST testimony of same person A in year Y. In other words, until 2013, nobody ever said anything about involvement of CIA in Camarena's murder. And from 2013 to 2020, there are only 3 people, who allegedly saw CIA agent torturing Camarena in 1985 and Berrellez everytime repeat their testimonies. But these 3 people already gave official testimonies at trial, we still can read it ( Lira, Lopez, Godoy) and they never mentioned CIA. Did you also know that John Massaria, co-producer of The Last Narc said that Kuykendall was fired from DEA in 1985 few days after Camarena's abduction because he was trying to destroy whole DEA's investigation of Camarena, despite Kuykendall actually worked for DEA until 1989? Did you also know that current Leyenda supervisor made many calls to Amazon that The Last Narc makes false accusations, but they have never answered him? Do you think it is sign of quality journalism? Sign of credible documentary? Do you really think that director Tiller Russell made 14 years of Camarena's murder for this TV series? Read Blood on the Corn from 2013, they simply recycled all those informations + they added accusation that Kuykendall sold Camarena. Ask yourself, why these 3 witnesses never mentioned Kuykendall, for 35 years. Until moment, when Berrellez published his new book. Very short after Kuykendall became little famous thanks to Netflix' Narcos.
I'd write here for all day, how this show has nothing to do with a reality, but at least I posted few big examples. I just wanted to help. But do, what you want. SaintSanti ( talk) 23:58, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
Wiki rules - I don't want to contribute at Wiki, so I honestly don't care about Wiki's rules. But Wiki has some rules, you want to follow them, so I'm absolutely fine with that. I respect it.
Anyway, let me talk about that story again.
1) Do you think that Rene Verdugo's lawyer did falsify all those tons of material? Or are those scanned documents real and they are credible source? (I mean credible in our story, not by wiki's rules).
2) There are four people who allegedly know that CIA's agent was torturing Camarena. Calderoni, Godoy, Lopez, Lira.
- Calderoni: there has never been any interview with him, where he tells that. Only Berrellez says that Calderoni told him that CIA killed Camarena. And Berrellez made this statement only after Calderoni's murder. How credibly is this statement?
- Godoy, Lopez, Lira. If we assume that all those documents from 1992 are real, so we all can see that they all lie. Did they lie in 1992 at trial? Or did they lie in 2020 for TV show? Or in both cases? I think they have never said anything about CIA until The Last Narc in 2020, after 35 years. Berrellez himself made this accusation for the first time in 2013, after 28 years. He simply use them as a source of his claims. How credibly is their statement?
3) Another DEA agent, Salvador Leyva, who interrogated Godoy, Lopez and Lira together with Berrelez says that they have never said anything about CIA. By the way, we can even see signatures of both agents under Godoy's, Lira's and Lopez' testimonies. So now, who is lying? Who is more credible? Leyva, whos opinion is constant? Or Berrellez, who changes his testimony?
4) Berrellez became Leyenda supervisor in 1989. There were four different supervisors prior that. And there were many other after Berrellez (Leyenda investigation even runs until these days). And nobody ever made same claims like Berrellez. Very fist Leyenda supervisor said that Berrellez is a liar, very last Leyenda supervisor made many calls to Amazon that the show is a fake. So who should we believe? One agent Berrellez, who made shocking claim 28 years after Camarena's murder? Or all other agents, including his own partner or another Leyenda supervisors?
5) Credibility of Berrellez: according to three FBI's polygraph tests, Berrellez (and Manny Medrano) instructed witness to lie at a trial. And it wasn't the only witness who made this claim. Berrellez once said that Salcido Uzeta put a contract on his head, and for The Last Narc, he said that it was Felix Gallardo. Did he lie in Salcido's case, or in Felix' case? It's not about quality of sources, it's about that we can compare his own words with statements in past.
Berrellez said that DEA had no witness of Camarena's murder when he take over Leyenda investigation. I'm sorry, but even if you ignore everything what I say, you simply MUST agree that it is a pure lie. This claim from The Last Narc is a false. And even if only this is the only one lie from the whole TV Show, this documentary simply can't be marked as a true, without any notes, comments, critics or anything like that. Prior Berrellez' work as a Leyenda supervisor in 1989, DEA simply HAD TWO WITNESSES (Rene Verdugo and Raul Lopez Alvarez) and they BOTH have been SENTENCED for Camarena's murder! That's simply a fact, which can be verified at any source on the internet.
Berrellez simply many times glorified himself. He many times denied his own claims from the past. But even if you disagree, you simply can't ignore the previous paragraph.
There have never been any single DEA agent who identified Camarena's interrogator as a Cuban, or moreover CIA agent. I can repeat again that even Godoy himself told that the interrogator was Espino Verdin from DFS, but he changed his testimony for the first time in 2020 for the TV show. No agent ever said that Camarena investigated CIA in Veracruz. On the one hand there is a one single DEA agent, who many times denied himself, and who is a proven liar. On the other hand, there are all other DEA agents. Including man, who interrogated same witnesses.
Is it fair to make an article, which is only based on a claim one single person with very questionable credibility?
Wouldn't be fair to at least mention also the opinion of other Leyenda supervisors, his partner Leyva, or DEA voice analytics? Not to mention that Berrellez, as I said, denied even himself.. SaintSanti ( talk) 20:05, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
"Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced and not related to making content choices should be removed, deleted, or oversighted, as appropriate... BLP applies to all material about living persons anywhere on Wikipedia, including talk pages."
Anyway..: Experts = DEA agents and witnesses. One DEA agent and his 3 three witnesses say - CIA or Kuykendall killed Camarena X other DEA agents working with different (or even same) witnesses say - CIA or Kuykendall didn't kill Camarena. This is what experts (insiders) say. So I personally think it would be fair to give both of these groups the opportunity to be 'heard' in the article. And to be honest, despite I'm pretty sure that this TV show is a pure fiction made only for a profit, to call this show a 'fiction' is maybe too much. Some of the claims are truth, some are questionable. And some are false. Berrellez' claim that DEA had no witness before 1989 is a lie, isn't it? And at least because this case, I also think we can't call this show as a fully 'true'. SaintSanti ( talk) 23:12, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
Recent changes [11] now describe the 2020 Amazon docuseries The Last Narc (TV series) as "fictional" in WP:WIKIVOICE, mostly based on links to primary documents from the 1990s housed at http://www.reneverdugo.org.
Furthermore, a one-paragraph "background" section has been proposed (see text here [12]), using academic and newspaper sources that don't reference The Last Narc, but are on the same topic and present similar conclusions.
Comments are appreciated. - Darouet ( talk) 17:06, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
The four-part series, released in July, tells the true story of Enrique “Kiki” Camarena...""Collider" uses similar language [15]:
"The Last Narc aims to tell the true story of who this fallen hero really was, and what really happened to him once he made life difficult for drug cartels."The docuseries doesn't involve any acting or fictional recreations, for instance: just interviews with those involved. I think if we write "fictional elements" we need a citation and need to be specific about what's fictional. - Darouet ( talk) 22:20, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
Hey men, I'm sorry that I started all of this. It seems it is only my fault :( I want to be fair:
I won't tell how I think this series should be called. I'm not English-native speaker and I don't know Wiki rules. But if word 'docuseries' doesn't automatically mean that given TV series is 100% true, then I personally would accept it without any problem. I'm sorry that I'm writing it again, but if you are gloryfying yourself with claim "before I started to investigate this case, DEA had no witness of Camarena's murder", but in reality DEA had two guys who has been sentenced for murder of Camarena, one simply can't mark this show as a 100% true (not to mention other claims).
So if whole article is in a way: The Last Narc says ABC; but there are also critics and they say XYZ, I'm totally fine. Prior to my stupid edit, there wasn't any section reserved for the critics (except Kuykendall's plaint).
If I would be allowed to say, what should roughly be written in the section for the critics, I'd say:
I'm sorry, but the official documents from the trial are perfectly credible. But if you don't want to use them because Wiki's rules, I absolutely understand you and respect it. In that case, you can use any article from LA Times or NY Times, they are still online.
Sorry, men! SaintSanti ( talk) 22:32, 7 February 2021 (UTC)