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Drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero was extradited along with 28 members of his drug cartel to the US as the pressure on the Trump administration drug trafficking organizations mounted.
The drug cartel removals took place during the same time frame as the Secretary of Relationships Exteriores De Mexico Juan Ramon De La Fuente and other key military and economic aides were attending their scheduled meetings in Washington with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
US newspaper AP reported the unprecedented joint effort is taking place as leading officials from Mexics are in Washington trying to make sure that a proposal made by the Trump administration to impose 25 percent duty on every import from Mexico does not come true on Tuesday.
During the recent Mayer for Mexico City Carlos Slim was in meetings showcase that in order to not have the Mexican imports tariffs imposed on Mexico, Trump required that the immigration, the cartels, and the fentanyl production be dealt with, while there have been noteworthy decreases in all these factors in the previous year.
The government of Mexico says that the cartel members that were deported on Thursday were taken from jails to planes heading to eight cities in America.
As stated in an AP report, among the missing persons were members of five out of the six Mexican organized crime syndicates which were declared “foreign terrorist organizations” by Donald Trump’s government earlier this month.
Along with Caro Quintero was cartel leaders, both Sinaloa cartel’s factions security chiefs, cartel's financial agents, and a 2022 North Carolina sheriff’s deputy murder suspect.
Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, who along with other drug lords ruled the Juarez drug cartel, a border town Ciudad Juarez opposite Texas’ El Paso city, his brother fusicated drug lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes, “The Lord of The Skies,” who died in 1997 due to a failed plastic surgery, was also one of the detainees sent to the US.
Prosecutors from both nations stated that the prisoners sent on Thursday to the US had charges like drug dealing, multiple murder, and many more.
US Attorney General Pamela Bondi stated, “We will prosecute these criminals to the fullest extent of the law in honor of the dedicated law enforcement agents who have devoted their lives to rescuing innocents from the violence of ruthless cartels,” AP reported.
In 2013 Quintero was released from prison after 28 years, due to a Federal court's cancelation of his 40 year sentence for the 1985 abduction and murder of Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique ‘Kiki’ Camarena. This crime certainly committed was a nadir of US-Mexican relations.
Quintero, Caro Gil, a former head of the Guadalajara cartel, is in jail now for resuming drug traffic. He carried out violent drug-related disputes in the northern border state of Mexico, Sonora, until he was captured by Mexican troops in 2022.
In January, in a letter to the White House, a nonprofit group claiming to represent the Camarena family lobbied for the Trump administration to reenergize long-standing requests for the extradition of Caro Quintero. A copy of the letter was sent by an individual familiar with the family's outreach to the Associated Press.
According to an anonymous source who spoke under the condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of diplomacy that went into Caro Quintero’s removal claimed that pressure mounted after Trump threatened Mexico with heavy trade tariffs and also classified some Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
Sources suggest that Derek Maltz, the acting head of the US Drug Enforcement Administration, gave the White House a remote list of more than 30 wanted Mexican nationals that the DEA wants to bring to the US to face charges. The report suggested that Caro Quintero, who the US placed a 20 million dollar bounty on the arrest of him, was number one on that list.
