Rafael Caro Quinterowell-known drug trafficker and founder of the Guadalajara Cartel, was captured this Friday in Sinaloa, for which his name became a trend on social networks.
Caro Quintero is related to sports, not only because of the urban legend of achieving unmask Darkness and the Saintalso because one of his sons was a Mexican medalist.
Hector Rafael Caro Elenes, He is the son of the ‘Narco de Narcos’, and stood out for his international level as a Mexican equestrian.
Caro Helenes represented Mexico in the Central American and Caribbean Games 2006 they made in Colombia and won the gold medal. Héctor Rafael won the golden medal, teaming up with O’Karla, in the jump team category.
In that competition were also equestrians Francisco Pasquel, Alberto Michán and Andrés Gómez, their horses were Jeremías, Risque Tout and El Comanche, respectively. Caro Elenes also won the bronze medal in the individual jump modality.
By 2008 Héctor Rafael was still participating with the Mexican equestrian team, so he could have been registered as a substitute in the riders who attended the 2008 Beijing Olympics taking into account their results in Central Americans.
The name of Caro Elenes does not appear on the list of the Mexican Olympic Committee, for this reason there is the possibility that it was one of the options to replace some loss of José Antonio Chedraui Eguía, Alberto Michán Halbinger, Enrique González Delgado, Federico Fernández Senderos and Bernadette Pujals Cavalle, who represented the country in the Olympic Games.
The son of the drug trafficker in 2010 was the winner in the Clásico de la Escuela Hípica Jalisciense, an event that aims to congratulate the founder of the club, Vicente Mendoza.
In 2013, the name of Héctor Rafael Caro Elenes did appear on a list, when the DEA announced that the United States Department of the Treasury had Caro Elenes, her mother, and her three brothers on the list for their possible participation in illicit activities related to his father, Rafael Caro Quintero.
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