Caro Quintero, Narco of Narcos, the coveted trophy that the US has been following for 40 years

Buffalo was both his greatest success and his inevitable curse. This ranch in Chihuahua, a huge plantation of the size of 1,000 football fields, revolutionized the world of Marijuana and catapulted it, a man who could barely read or write, at the tip of drugs in record time. At 33, Rafael Caro Quintero was already a millionaire. He led the powerful Cartel Guadalajara with his partners and had policemen, members of the army, politicians and judges about his salaries throughout Mexico. Until one day from November 1984, hundreds of soldiers appeared, all workers arrested and burned about 8,000 tons of marijuana.

The definitive proof was an aerial photo of the farm, thanks to Kiki Camarenaan undercover agent of the US Agency for Drug Application (DEA). Caro Quintero swore revenge, and later he ended up killing Camarena and the pilot of the plane. Da has never forgotten the affront and since then he has made his top target. He was incarcerated, released and arrested again in Mexico. But in all these decades, they did not reach the wish in the US. The fate was hot on the heels of Caro Quintero for 40 years. And Thursday the United States finally claimed the head Under pressure and threats from Donald Trump.

The 72-year-old Drug Lord landed in New York late in the afternoon. Wearing a beige and handcuffed prison uniform, he got off a plane of the Mexican army. Over a dozen cops were waiting for the American Earth, some of them even took a photo of their mobile phones. Vendetta Anti-Narcotic Agency has been fulfilled. “There is no hiding place for someone who kidnaps, cakes and kill an agent.” That’s how the US government announced Its second arrest, in which he collaborated with the Da himself, three years ago in the Sinaloa Mountains.

The US justice system then said that his extradition was imminent. That previous arrest of the drug of drugs came in a delicate moment in the bilateral relationship, in the middle of a migration crisis and just a few months after it was made public that the then president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, dissolved a DE DE information that has been operating in Mexico since the 90’s. The White House, which not only requested extradition to the bilateral negotiation table, but also established for this: “Processing before July 1, 2022”, according to documents in the Mexican army.

The charges against Caro Quintero in American federal courts include, in addition to killing Camarena, three other open cases for drug trafficking in Texas, Arizona and New York. After his capture, an extradition process against him was initiated. But the process was prevented by a mess of ordinances and other legal appeals by his lawyers. In the background, a political decision weighed strongly. The ball has always been in the yard of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which has to let go for extraditions. In recent history there were cases of express transports, such as that of Dámaso Núñez, El LicenciadoThe man to the right of El Chapo, captured in 2017 and extradited a year later.

The US output door for Caro -Quintero has now opened in a maximum pressure context on Mexico. Since Donald Trump’s return to the White House at the beginning of the year, the Republican tycoon has implemented an aggressive negotiation strategy. Under threat of imposing a 25% rate to Mexican exportsTrump tightens the screws on his neighbor, demanding results in immigration, trade and, above all, in the fight against drug trafficking. Fentanel epidemicWho claims thousands of American lives year after year, is a priority for the new administration, which blames the Mexican mafia because it has flooded its streets with the powerful opioid.

Trump has even reached the equivalence of the fight against drug trafficking with anti -terrorist policies, designating Mexican cartels as such. The government of Claudia Sheinbaum announces almost daily a series of drug arrests and seizures. The last message came on Thursday, the same day that the US president confirmed that he will not give more extensions and that the rates will start to apply starting next Tuesday. Mexico replied announcing a massive deportation operation, unprecedented in recent history.

In addition to Caro Quintero, the most coveted prize, 28 other drug dealers who were in different prisons in the country were sent to the other side of Rio Grande. AMONG OTHERS, The Former Leaders of the Los Zetas Cartel, Miguel Ángel and Omar Treviño Morales, KNOW Los Chapitos, The Faction of the Sons of El Chapo Guzmán. Historian Sinaloa Capo, Who executes a life sentence In a maximum security prison in New York, it was extracted just a few weeks after Donald Trump took power for the first time in January 2017.

The story of the two fallen drug gentlemen is braided. Both were born in Badiraguato, a small peasant village in the Sinaloa Mountains. El Chapo, just five years younger than Quintero, started his criminal career as a Hitman for the cartel that Don Rafa, one of his numerous nicknames, driven with Don Neto and Félix Gallardo. The arrest of the founders of the Guadalajara cartel, in the corner, after killing Camarena, rushed a reordination of the criminal map in Mexico. Thus the Sinaloa Cartel and El Chapo ascension was born.

Of the three children of modern drug trafficking, Caro Quintero was the first to fall. With hot heel, he fled to Costa Rica with the granddaughter of a former Jalisco governor. A call from the 17 -year -old to her parents was intercepted by the police. After spending 28 years in five different prisons, he was issued in 2013 by legal Russian. A judge decided that he should not have been tried by a federal court, but by one of his city and released him with another 12 years before he executed his sentence. At 59, the old drug of drugs was free and again in hide.

Although he no longer had the power he had once, the FBI file warned that he is still a threat from his northern, Sonora and Baja California. When he returned to the ring, he asked for age, he sought an alliance with another veteran, El Mayo Zambada, arrested last year, gathered a small army of loyal and went to war with Los Chapitos. He could not regain his power that won the nickname “Narco of Narcos”, and his plans to return to the top were over. Dai recruited infiltrators in his inner circle.

The prince, another of his nicknames, is again caught by his past. The decision in the Camarena case found that, on February 7, 1985, when the anti-narcotic agent left the United States Consulate in Guadalajara, he was abducted by the police and handed over to the Guadalajara cart. At a farm belonging to the organization, he was tortured again and again, while a doctor kept him alive. When his body was recovered, it was discovered that he was castrated and buried in life.

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