Mexico has extradited Rafael Caro Quintero, a notorious drug lord, and 28 other fugitive cartel members to the United States, as confirmed by the US Department of Justice (DOJ). Caro Quintero, considered the founder of the Guadalajara cartel, is accused of kidnapping and conspiring to murder a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent in 1985.
The DEA alleges that Caro Quintero was involved in the kidnapping, torture, and murder of DEA Special Agent Enrique Camarena Salazar in 1985, as a retaliation for a raid on his marijuana farm by Mexican authorities in 1984. After spending 28 years in a Mexican prison for his role in the murder, Caro Quintero was released on a technicality in 2013, only to be recaptured in 2022 by the Mexican Navy.
