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| Rafael Caro-Quintero (RCQ) once had a US$20 million bounty for his capture. This ws the highest reward the U.S. had offered for a Mexican criminal. |
Hermelinda Quintero (aged 94), the mother of Rafael Caro Quintero, founder of the Guadalajara Cartel wanted for the 1985 murder of US agent Enrique Camarena Salazar, passed away on Thursday due to natural causes in Jalisco. Her relatives chose to transport her body to the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa.
Hermelinda Quintero hails from the municipality of Badiraguato, Sinaloa. Following her marriage to Emilio Caro Payan, with whom she had eight children, including Rafael, they immersed themselves in agriculture and livestock. They resided at the foothills of the Sierra Madre, specifically in the region recognized as The Golden Triangle, renowned for its fertile opium poppy cultivation areas.
Subsequently, her children migrated to Guadalajara, Jalisco, including Rafael Caro Quintero, who co-founded the now-defunct Guadalajara Cartel alongside Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo (The Godfather) and Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo (Don Neto).
Caro Quintero, commonly known as El Narco de Narcos (The Narco of Narcos), received news of his mother's passing from within the Altiplano maximum security prison in the State of Mexico. He is currently awaiting potential extradition to the United States following his second arrest in 2022.
Archival sources reviewed by Borderland Beat reveal that Caro Quintero initiated the acquisition of properties in Guadalajara in December 1983, assigning many under his family's name. The first house was purchased and registered under his sister Manuela, followed by another under his sister Rosa Evelia.
Caro Quintero registered a 5-hectare (approximately 12.35 acres) property near the Zapopan air base, valued at 4 million pesos at that time, in the name of his mother, Hermelinda. This transaction was officially documented by Notary Pedro Vargas Ávalos.
Similarly, an apartment building situated at Bernardo de Balbuena street in Zapopan was registered under her mother's name. Its purchase in August 1984 amounted to 4.3 million pesos at that time. In 2018, Caro Quintero's mother sold a property to University of Guadalajara (UdeG) as part of a campus expansion.
Background
Caro Quintero, the former leader of the Guadalajara Cartel, is wanted for the 1985 murder of US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Enrique Camarena Salazar.
In 2013, he was freed from a Mexican state jail on a legal technicality, but an arrest warrant was issued by federal authorities a few months after his release. He was re-apprehended in 2022.
Officials say he will likely be extradited to the US this year after exhausting most of his legal motions in Mexico. In the US, he is wanted for kidnapping and murder of a US federal officer, as well as drug trafficking, money laundering and for leading a continuous criminal enterprise.
How old was she? These guys are lucky their mothers lived so long..
ReplyDelete94. I've added a source for the age and updated the article.
DeleteWow!
DeleteTalking about Rafa Caro . Here is a photo of his uncle "Centenario"
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That’s a different clan of Quintero from Durango
DeleteI remember going to Mexico for the first time with my pops soon as he got his residency. I was 11 at the time, we had gone to visit one of my dads relatives who supposedly grew weed and sold it to Rafas people back in the day. Anyway, my dads relative lived in the boonies, about a 2 hour drive from the nearest town/Rancho on nothing but dirt roads, I remember passing by a ranch and you could see zebras and giraffes. Supposedly it belonged to Caro Quintero.
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DeleteAwww poor little psychopathic Rafa. He's in pain 'cause momma died. How many families were effected by his murders? Twist on the vine, I hope you're in a ton of pain that never goes away.
ReplyDeleteMaybe so, but are you familiar with the Iran-Contra scandal? That is a verified event, so the whole Kiki/RCQ "diversion" conspiracy might not be so farfetched. Yeah maybe RCQ was responsible for the importation of tons of narcotics, but Reagan, or atleast his administration was probably responsible for the sacrificial lamb we know as Kiki Camarena. Afterall, it is politics, and as we all know, the media is in bed with the government, whether it be in Mexico, Cuba, Russia, China or the USA.
DeleteSo what, we all know about that, it doesn't matter. There's always a bigger beast but Rafa is a subhuman piece of trash that should never have been allowed to live this long.
DeleteNo wonder he hasn't answered my text messages.
ReplyDeleteThey should leave Rafa alone. He did his time in Mexico. Never committed a crime in the USA. The DEA shouldnt be sniffing around in Mexico anyway.
ReplyDeleteKilled an American official. The US never forgets or forgives
DeleteYou’re exactly right. And the bean eating tortilla toting taco Tuesday eating bad hombres should keep there filthy potions they cook in their own country as well. But since they can’t do that because their country has a shit economy and greedy politicians that screw over the average dumb Indian and keep their country dependent upon others to support them the DEA will remain involved in your pathetic country to sow strife and ultimately bring your government down. All your presidents are hand picked up north. They talk all patriotic to you , but they are puppets.
DeleteRafael Caro Quintero is Mexican Phil Leotardo. 20 years in the can. Not a f’ing peep. And for what? To protect the likes of Felix F*cking Gallardo!? Mayo Zambada? No more of this Neto
Delete4:26 What’s wrong with tacos? You prefer plain ham sandwiches instead?
DeleteNo I’m a hamburger person myself.
DeleteI hope he dies in prison.One man or one man.He killed that rat kamarena than rafanshould.die aswell
ReplyDeleteDamn! This is what happens when you hit the pipa mid post.
DeleteKiki camarena wasn’t a rat, he was DEA doing his job
Delete@2:55 He was doing his job until he wanted to expose the DEA lol. He had to be dealt with
DeleteHey 641. So how does that make him a rat. Because he had values or morals. Do you think everyone just does bad shit.? Ignorance is a hell of a drug
DeleteIn the End he's in Jail for the Rest of his Days... Just like Chapo
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