The Mexican Rafael Caro Quintero, the most wanted fugitive by the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA, in English) and for whom a reward of 20 million dollars was offered for information for his capture, He was arrested this Friday in the municipality of Guachochi, in the northern state of Chihuahua.
The arrest of Caro Quintero, 69, was due to the fact that the authorities had allegedly detected that he had returned to criminal activity on a minimal scale, according to official sources.
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The arrest was recorded days after President Andrés Manuel López Obrador held a bilateral meeting with the President of the United States, Joe Biden, at the White House.
Caro Quintero, called “El Narco de Narcos”, is originally from La Noria, Sinaloa, is remembered for being one of the founders of the so-called Guadalajara Cartel with his Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, “The boss of bosses” and his soulmate , Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, “Don Neto”, this last uncle of Sandra Ávila Beltrán, “The Queen of the Pacific”.
His heyday was in the 1980s when he began to traffic drugs, mainly marijuana, with his partners, on a large scale to the United States, which catapulted them as the ‘lords of drug trafficking in Mexico’.
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At that time, Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán Loera was a hitman for the cartel and had as his teachers the men who would later be considered legends in the history of drug trafficking in Mexico.
Caro Quintero, who started in the business growing marijuana, was arrested in 1985 in Costa Rica and after spending 28 years incarcerated in a state prison in Jalisco, he was released in 2013; days later a federal judge issued a new arrest warrant against him.
The United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) recognizes Caro Quintero as the true leader of the Sinaloa cartel after Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo “The boss of bosses” and after the fall of Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán.
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