![]() ![]() The program portrays an appalling web of government corruption in Mexico. Lloyd Siegel, executive producer for special broadcasts at NBC News, says: ``We do not accept the charge that there were any inaccuracies or inconsistencies'' in the reporting. Petricioli says: ``We strongly reject such statement.'' He demands: Where is the proof? In every part of the country there is a local Noriega, a comandante, a general, a governor getting rich by dealing with Colombian cartel drug bosses to bring cocaine to the US through Mexico.'' The ambassador singled out one statement as ``slanderous.'' It said: ``Mexico is just like Panama. Petricioli called the news commentaries, hosted by NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw, ``the product of sheer ignorance, imprecise, unfair, lacking of any evidence, and, maybe, in bad faith.'' Mexican officials, including Ambassador Petricioli, were particularly incensed by news segments at the end of each program. It portrayed collusion between drug criminals, police, and high-ranking government officials in Mexico in the Camarena murder and the subsequent coverup. The program created a great deal of controversy in Mexico. ![]() Based on the book ``Desperados'' by reporter Elaine Shannon, the movie described the 1985 murder of Enrique (Kiki) Camarena, an agent of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). ![]() 7, 8, and 9, and was watched by an estimated 23 million Americans. The program, ``Drug Wars: The Camarena Story,'' was broadcast Jan. He denounced implications that his countrymen were failing to combat drug traffickers. Gustavo Petricioli, the Mexican ambassador to the US, contends that the NBC miniseries reflected ``sheer ignorance'' of his country. Mexican businessmen, worried about the corrupt image of their nation portrayed on the broadcast, took out full-page ads in three major American newspapers this week to laud Mexico's antidrug campaign. Mexican officials, fuming about the NBC movie, say they are looking into charges that the American agent - depicted as a hero - was actually in league with drug traffickers in Mexico. AFTERSHOCKS are rumbling through Mexico and the United States in the wake of a six-hour TV miniseries depicting the kidnapping, torture, and murder of an American drug agent. ![]()
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