One morning in October 1976, the adventurer Captain Carlos Camacho Spiritarrived earlier than normal to his africam safari park to assemble a number with wild animals that was becoming the sensation of the visitors.
The act consisted of building a pyramid (human-animal) starting at the base with an elephant, a lion and him at the top, but he did not suspect that that day, or any other day, he would perform that show, since his life would soon end. consequence of the recklessness of a family who toured the park aboard his car.
Africam Safari, the greatest dream of Carlos Camacho
And although we will describe how the careless action of those visitors was, it must be said before that when Captain Carlos Camacho Espíritu died, he had only been four years after founding Africam Safari, his largest business dream.
The man died young, at 46 years of age, although his life is by no means unfruitful to be easily described, but we will try: he was born into a poor family in Acatzingo, Puebla, in 1927; at the age of 16 he came to USA illegally, so it was repatriatetaking advantage of that to establish itself in Monterey where he began his career as a broadcaster.
He crossed the border again to settle in The Angelswhere he got the U.S. citizenship Then he enlisted in the army and became a airplane pilot. With some prosperity in his pocket, someone was financeds trips to Africa to get exotic animals and bring them back in the plane that he himself flew.
Flights to Africa to get a menagerie
This is how it was made from one collection of various wild animals that he kept in the garden of his house, with whom his wife also lived without fearLouise Wardle, and their nine children. A common scene in the family was watch TV in the company of tigers and monkeys in the house.
With the money that Captain Carlos Camacho Espíritu managed to make thanks to his laboratory business, he obtained enough money to finance his two big dreams, making movies and buying a considerable portion of land next to the Valsequillo Lake to, in the end, found Africam Safari on April 2, 1972.
The fatal day the founder of Africam Safari died
Carlos Camacho enjoyed his greatest dream for only four years. Until that October morning in 1976, when he arrived early at Africam Safari to present his act with the elephant and the lion, he heard the screams of a woman and children in the tiger area.
He ran to the place to provide the necessary help and realized that a family had imprudently got out of the car to approach the animals, and then ran back to the car in order to escape from a cat named Teethwho was now trying to get into the vehicle.
Shouting, the captain tried to remove Dientes with his bare hands, but when he was unable to do so, he began to hit him with a gun that he carried on his belt, it was obvious that he did not want to shoot him. The animal did not ignore what he felt was an aggression on the part of Camacho, giving it a claw on the left arm.
The doctors did not know how to treat the wound
It is not clear if after that the tiger withdrew. The fact is that the founder of Africam Safari was taken from urgency with a doctor, who only decided to close the wounds with a needle and surgical thread. Believing him safe, the doctor admitted him to keep him under observation.
However, as the hours passed, the general’s state of health worsened, they did not calculate that Teeth’s claws had parasites from the meat that he destroyed every day. Carlos Camacho Espíritu died on October 28, 1976.
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