Mexico sends Drugs Lord Caro Quintero and 28 in the US, while officials meet with the Trump team

Mexico City (AP) – Mexico sent drugs lord Rafael Caro Quintero, which was Behind the killing of a US DEA agent in 1985To the United States, with 28 other prisoners requested by the US government, the Mexican government said in a statement on Thursday.

The unprecedented show of security cooperation comes under the conditions in which top Mexican official imposing 25% rates for all Mexican imports Starting on Tuesday.

Thursday to the US on Thursday were brought from Mexico prisons to board an airport in northern Mexico, which took them to eight American cities.

Among them were counted members of five of the six Mexicans Organized crime groups designated earlier this month by the Trump administration as “foreign terrorist organizations”.

In addition to Caro Quintero were the leaders of the Cartel, the Security Heads from both factions of the Sinaloa Cartel, Cartel Finance Operators and a desired man in connection with Killing a northern Carolina sheriff’s deputy in 2022.

Vicente Carrillo FuentesFormer leader of the Drug Cartel Juarez, based in the Border City Ciudad Juarez, opposite El Paso, Texas, and the brother of Lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes, known as “Mr. Cerului”, who died in a plastic surgery in 1997, was among those taken in the USA.

The general prosecutor of Mexico said in a statement that the 29 prisoners sent in the US on Thursday faced accusations related to drug trafficking among other crimes.

Also among those eliminated were two leaders of Cartel Los ZetasMexicans Miguel Treviño Morales and his brother Omar Treviño Morales, known as Z-40 and Z-42.

“This is historical, this has never happened in the history of Mexico,” said Mike Vigil, the former head of the International Operations. “This is a huge holiday thing for the drug application administration.”

The removal of drugs from Mexico coincided with a visit to Washington by Mexico Foreign Minister Juan from Fuente, and other top economic and military officials who met US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The meeting was the latest in the US negotiations on the US on commercial and security relations, which have been radically changed since the US President Donald Trump has taken over.

In exchange for delaying tariffs, Trump has insisted that Mexico collapse on cartele, illegal migration and fentanel production, despite significant decreases in migration and overdoses in the last year. Removal may indicate that negotiations move as the tariff is approaching.

The surprise surface of the Mexico of one of the ten most sought after FBI was becoming weeks.

Caro Quintero released in 2013, after 28 years in prison, when a court overturned the 40 -year penalty for the 1985 abduction and killing of the US Drug Administration Agent, Enrique “Kiki” Camarena. Brutal crime marked a low point in US-Mexico relationships.

Caro Quintero, the former leader of the Guadalajara cartel, has since returned to drug trafficking and has unleashed bloody lawn in the border state in northern Mexico until the Mexico He was arrested by Mexican forces in 2022.

In January, a non -profit group representing the Camarena family sent a letter to the White House, asking the Trump administration to renew the US long -term requests for Mexico to extract Caro Quintero, according to a letter provided by the Associated Press by a person familiar with the family disclosure.

“The return to the US would give the family such a necessary closure and serve the best interests of justice,” the letter shows.

Pressure increased after Trump threatened to impose rigid commercial tariffs on Mexico and was designated More Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizationsAccording to a person provided anonymity to discuss the sensitive diplomacy that has entered the removal of Caro Quintero.

The interim chief of the US administration for drug application, Derek Maltz, offered the white house a list of almost 30 Mexican targets searched in the US, according to the person. Caro Quintero, for whose arrest of the US offered a reward of $ 20 million, was the number one on this list, according to the person.

The person said that the government of President Claudia Sheinbaum, haste to seek favor with the Trump administration and show a powerful ally in the fight against cartels, bypassed the formalities of the US-Mexico extradition treaty to remove Caro Quintero and the other defendants.

This means that it could allow US prosecutors to try it for Camarena’s killing -something that is not provided in the existing extradition request to deal with separate drug trafficking in a federal court.