In Narcos: Mexico, which real-life DEA agent is played by Michael Peña?

Michael Peña plays DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena in Narcos: Mexico.

Camarena was a Mexican-American law-enforcement officer who joined the United States Drug Enforcement Administration. In 1981, he was assigned to the DEA office in Guadalajara, where he investigated the expanding Guadalajara Cartel and gathered intelligence on its leaders, including Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo.

Narcos: Mexico begins its main story in the 1980s, when Camarena moves with his family from California to Guadalajara for his new assignment. The first season follows his investigation and the increasing danger surrounding his work. The series combines documented events with fictionalized scenes and dramatized timelines, so it is a historical crime drama rather than a literal reconstruction.

Camarena was kidnapped and murdered in Mexico in 1985. His death became a major turning point in U.S.–Mexico drug-enforcement relations and helped define the historical period portrayed by the series. Michael Peña plays Camarena in the first season, while Steve Murphy and Javier Peña are DEA agents associated primarily with the original Narcos storyline.