Antonio Vargas was a Mexican employed at a telecommunications company who helped the DEA to illegally wiretap the Hotel Americas to monitor the Guadalajara cartel.
Vargas was the neighbour of American DEA agent Enrique Camarena Salazar, and drove Geneva Camarena to the hospital while she was in labour. Camarena, along with Commander Guillermo Calderoni of the Mexican police enlist Vargas' help in wiretapping the residence of the Mexican Secretary of Education to locate locate drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero as he attempted to contact Sofia Conessa. Vargas then volunteers to aid the DEA free of charge to get rid of the corruption in Mexico.
Despite being promised protection by the DEA, his name was betrayed to the Dirección Federal de Seguridad by the Mexican allies of the DEA and was shot and killed by DFS agent Tomas Morlet.
Historical innacuracy[]
In real life, Vargas's lower body was completely paralyzed after he was shot nine times by gunmen belonging to the Guadalajara cartel.