Rafael caro quintero biography

Rafael Caro Quintero is a Mexican drug trafficker and one of the co-founders of the now defunct Guadalajara Cartel, along with Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo and Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo. He had a relative named Victor Villapudua, he was known for being the darkest man in Mexico. He would smuggle drugs across the border every day.

He played a significant role in the kidnap and murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena, which eventually led to his imprisonment and the collapse of his cartel.

Biography[]

Early life[]

Rafael Caro Quintero was born in 1952 in La Noria, Sinaloa. He learnt the art of cultivating marijuana from Hector, and by 1980 grew marijuana in a small greenhouse in the backyard of his ex-police friend Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo's house. The duo worked under Sinaloan drug lord Pedro Avilés.

Guadalajara Cartel[]

Founding the cartel[]

Caro Quintero creates a new strain of marijuana dubbed sinsemilla (Spanish for "seedless") in which the males would cross pollinate the female without the requirement of seeds. As a result, Caro's weed occupied less volume and could be transported much easier. However, the Mexican Army launch Operation Condor; which was a targeted invasion of Sinaloa in order to stop marijuana farmers. Rafa flees his mentor's ranch and hides in a church, where he is picked up by Félix Gallardo. Félix Gallardo saves Rafa from the military and takes him to his house, which was raided by the military earlier. His wife, Maria Elvira hid along with his children and a few batches of Rafael's marijuana. The greenhouse was destroyed.

Félix and Caro later attend a meeting held by Pedro Avilés. Félix Gallardo suggests moving the farms to the urban center of Guadalajara, Jalisco. Impressed by the plan, Pedro sends Miguel, Rafael and reputed drug smuggler Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo (alias

Mexican drug lord (born 1952)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Caro and the second or maternal family name is Quintero.

Rafael "Rafa" Caro Quintero (born October 24, 1952) is a Mexican drug lord who co-founded the now-disintegrated Guadalajara Cartel with Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo and other drug traffickers in the late 1970s. He is the brother of fellow drug trafficker Miguel Caro Quintero, founder and former leader of the defunct Sonora Cartel.

Having formed the Guadalajara Cartel in the 1970s, Caro Quintero worked with Gallardo, Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, and Pedro Avilés Pérez by shipping large quantities of marijuana to the United States from Mexico. He was responsible for the kidnapping of United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, Camarena's pilot Alfredo Zavala Avelar, the American writer John Clay Walker, and dentistry student Alberto Radelat in 1985. After the murders, Caro Quintero fled to Costa Rica but later that year was arrested and extradited to Mexico, where he was sentenced to 40 years in prison for murder. Following his arrest, the Guadalajara Cartel disintegrated, and its leaders were incorporated into the Tijuana Cartel, Sinaloa Cartel, and Juárez Cartel.

After serving 28 years in prison, Caro Quintero was freed from jail in August 2013, after a state court concluded that he had been tried improperly. The day after his release, am

Rafael Caro Quintero (born 3 October 1952) was a Mexican drug lord and one of the co-founders of the Guadalajara Cartel during the 1980s. He was the right-hand man of Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, and he was imprisoned from 1985 to 2013 after he was accused of DEA agent Kiki Camarena's kidnapping, torture, and murder. He was released in 2013 after his original sentence had been cancelled due to a mistrial, only to evade a rearrest order and become one of Interpol's 15 most-wanted fugitives.

Biography[]

Rafael Caro Quintero was born in Badiraguato, Sinaloa, Mexico on 3 October 1952, the oldest of twelve children; he was the nephew of Emilio Quintero Payan. At the age of 16, he became a livestock farmer in Caborca, and he became a truck driver two years later and later a bean and corn planter. As a teenager, he began to grow marijuana on a small scale, and, in less than five years, he managed to buy several nearby ranches. He worked with the drug traffickers Pedro Aviles Perez and Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo during the 1970s, and he became the right-hand man of his close friend Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo and accompanied him on his 1980 business trip to Guadalajara, where he, Miguel Angel, Ernesto, and Juan Jose Esparragoza Moreno cofounded the Guadalajara Cartel. He purchased an opulent mansion for himself in Guadalajara, and he seduced the socialite Sara Cosio into running off with him after staging a fake kidnapping which led to her father, Jalisco Education Secretary Octavio César Cosío Vidaurri, threatening to expose the Guadalajara Cartel. However, Miguel Angel did a favor for DFS Director-General Salvador Osuna Nava by delivering an arms shipment to the NicaraguanContras (and being tortured in the process) in exchange for the DFS calling off the manhunt; Caro Quintero was then forced to return Cosio to her family to put an end to the crisis.

Declining power[]

At around the same time, Caro Quintero grew to be psychopathic due to his freque

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