The Mexico Prosecutor's Office announced the transfer to the United States of about 29 people arrested, including the drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero.
In an unprecedented operation, the Mexican authorities transferred 29 people required by links with organized crime on Thursday, including the historic Capo Rafael Caro Quintero, which was arrested almost three years ago in northwest Mexico and who is required by the murder of a federal agent in 1985.
In addition to Caro Quintero, Los Actuillas of the Sanguar The Associated Press A federal official who spoke anonymous because she is not authorized to declare.
The Attorney General of Mexico and the Ministry of Citizen Security and Protection announced in a joint statement that on Thursday morning were transferred to the United States 28 people who were detained in different prison centers in the country. They were required in the neighboring neighborhood for their links with criminal organizations for drug trafficking, among other crimes, but did not mention their names.
Caro Quintero was arrested in Mexican territory in July 2022 and is claimed by US justice with accusations for death in 1985 of an agent of the DEA, the United States anti -drug agency.
The arrest of Caro Quintero, considered one of the great “godparents” of drug trafficking in Mexico, represented the greatest blow to the criminal organizations given by the government of former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024).
The Sinaloan criminal leader was born in Badiraguato – the same municipality as Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán – and was one of the founders of the Guadalajara cartel at the end of the 1970 arrested last year in Texas.
The transfer to the United States of the three capos coincided with the Visit that Foreign Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente made Thursday to Washington and the Secretaries of Economics, Security, Defense and Marina, Marcelo Ebrard, Omar García Harfuch, General Ricardo Trevilla Trejo and Admiral Raymundo Morales, respectively, to advance discussions with their US peers on possible agreements on commercial and security matters.
Bilateral dialogues are given a few days after the March 4 term that President Donald Trump set to begin applying 25% general tariffs to Mexican imports.
With the extraditions of the two bosses, an end to a long process that began after the capture in 2013 by Miguel Treviño Morales and two years after his brother, Omar Treviño Morales. It was postponed for years due to delays in the process that Mexico's attorney general, Alejandro Gertz Manero, described as “truly shameful.”
The Treviño Morales, who have been accused by the US authorities to direct from the prison the violent Northeast Cartel, have pending processes in the United States for participating in a criminal organization, conspiracy for drug trafficking, crimes with firearms and conspiracy for money laundering. They are attributed criminal activities in Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela and the United States.
Los Zetas emerged as the armed arm of the Gulf Cartel in the state of Tamaulipas, bordering with Texas. After dividing, they sowed several states of Mexico and were the main objective of the war against the cartels launched by former president Felipe Calderón (2006-2012).
The violent group was accused as responsible for various massacres, including the one that occurred in 2010 in San Fernando, state of Tamaulipas, where they murdered 72 migrants, and the execution of dozens of inhabitants in the northern town of Allende, state of Coahuila, around 2011.
The renowned Northeast Cartel currently operates in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, the place “where the criminal groups add more to the Armed Forces, both to the Army and in his case to the National Guard,” as the Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, recognized last October.