The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has placed Mexican drug lord
Rafael Caro Quintero
at the top of its list of most wanted fugitives.
He is accused of the kidnapping and murder of a federal agent,
Enrique
Kiki
Camarena
;
and of
violent crimes in aid of organized crime, murder, possession of marijuana and cocaine with intent to distribute ...
The DEA offers a
reward of 20 million dollars
for information that could lead to the capture of one of the three leaders of the Guadalajara Cartel, the first large drug trafficking organization in Mexico.
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On its website, the agency placed Caro Quintero above
Ismael
El Mayo
Zambada García,
alleged leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, and
Nemesio
El Mencho
Oseguera Cervantes.
The DEA warns that he could be armed, therefore, it specifies that no attempt should be made to apprehend him.
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Who is Rafael Caro Quintero?
Caro Quintero was born on October 3, 1952 in La Noria, Badiraguato, in the state of Sinaloa.
He was arrested in Costa Rica on April 4, 1985, accused of the murder of agent Camarena and other crimes.
At that time it entered the list of the 10 most wanted by the US Government.
But on August 9, 2013, a federal court in Guadalajara ordered his release after determining that he was wrongly tried for the murder.
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He was also held responsible for the
death of the Mexican pilot Alfredo Zavala Avelar,
which occurred on February 7, 1985, and for various crimes against health, criminal association and violation of the Federal Law on Firearms and Explosives.
El Mayo
Zambada: the second most wanted man by the DEA
Ismael Zambada García, head of the Sinaloa Cartel, is the second most wanted man.
"
El Mayo
is a factor of stability for the world drug market, it is the one who guarantees a price, defines part of the market, the quality or not of the merchandise, and even the distribution channels," said Mexican journalist Anabel Hernández in January. in an interview with the Efe agency.
El Mencho
Oseguera Cervantes, the DEA's most wanted room
El Mencho
Oseguera Cervantes, leader of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel, ranks fourth on the DEA list.
This organization operates in 25 of the 32 states of Mexico although its largest presence is in the states of Baja California, Guanajuato, Michoacán, Veracruz and Jalisco.
The CJNG traffics natural and synthetic drugs along the Pacific Ocean coast from the United States and Canada to South America.
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The criminal organization was created as an armed wing of the Sinaloa Cartel under the name of
Los Mata Zetas
and emerged as a result of divisions between various drug trafficking structures after the death in 2010 of Ignacio Coronel, alias
Nacho Coronel
, one of the leaders of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel (CDS).
Jesús Alfredo Guzmán-Salazar, eighth on the DEA list
A little further down, in eighth position, is Jesús Alfredo Guzmán-Salazar, son of Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, who until a few years ago was considered the chief of bosses in the Sinaloa Cartel.
On February 12, 2019, Joaquín
El Chapo
Guzmán was found guilty of drug trafficking, after leading the powerful Sinaloa Cartel for 25 years.
In three months, with at least 40 court sessions, more than a dozen of his former partners, employees and collaborators exposed his extensive network of operations, his ruthless nature and how various authorities were key pieces and played a relevant role in his career, promotion and expansion of the Sinaloa Cartel.
Guzmán Loera received a life sentence.
Today he is still being held in a maximum security prison in Colorado.
With information from However, El Universal, Aristegui Noticias y Proceso.