The Mexican marines arrested Rafael Caro Quintero , the "drug king" accused, among other things, of killing the agent of the American goddess Enrique "Kiki" Camarena in 1985, the character on which the first season of the TV series " Narcos " is centered. : Mexico ".
Quintero was sentenced to 40 years for that crime: after serving 28 years, in 2013 he was released from prison by a Mexican judge for " administrative reasons ". And since 2018 he has been on the FBI's "most wanted" list, which had put a $ 20 million bounty on his head.
Maybe it's just a coincidence, but the arrest comes a few days after Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's visit to the White House , where he was received by Joe Biden.
Now the United States is demanding the extradition of the drug trafficker.
Caro Quintero was one of the largest suppliers of heroin, cocaine and marijuana to the United States in the 1970s. In 1984 a raid on one of his marijuana plantations caused him to lose significant income, inflicting a severe blow to his empire.
So the ruthless drug trafficker decided to take revenge, targeting Camarena. He had him kidnapped not far from the American consulate in Guadalajara and tortured him for a few days . Tortures of unprecedented violence, which left no escape for the agent of the Goddess, whose body was found a month after his death.
An episode that was a watershed in relations between the United States and Mexico, raising the tension between the two countries and pushing the United States to intensify its battle against drugs.
(Unioneonline / L)