In an underground interview with the Mexican outlet Proceso on February 25, 2016, Caro Quintero assured that he is no longer a drug dealer and that he is alive thanks to the help of others. (DEF file)
Founder of the Guadalajara Cartel, Rafael Caro Quintero He was one of the most important drug lords of the 1980s and one of the first to ship drugs to the United States on a large scale.
Rafael Caro Quintero’s wife announced that she is divorcing the capo and released statements about “Kiki” Camarena
In an interview, Diana Espinoza Aguilar explained the reasons why she will dissolve her marriage to “El Príncipe”, whom she married in 2016
On July 15, he was arrested until then most wanted fugitive by the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
In the 9 years that she was on the run, the journalist became Anabel Hernandez it met four times at four different locations in the Golden Triangle, deep in the Sierra Madre Occidental.
Rafael Caro Quintero: who is he and where is his first wife?
The drug dealer married a former beauty queen, but little is known about the mother of his four eldest children.
However, at the last of the four meetings, in early January 2018, he acknowledged to the author of Los Señores del Narco and El Traidor that he is in front of one serious health problem.
Earlier, in 2017, the drug lord’s doctor was once well known “The Narco of Narcos” I told the communicator that I had prostate problems that could lead to it Cancer.
Rafael Caro Quintero was arrested in Sinaloa state, Mexico, on Friday, July 15, 2022 (Mexico Secretary of the Navy via AP)
This was revealed by a doctor from Culiacan, Sinaloa the situation of the “prince” was special Complex because given his status as a refugee, it was extreme hard-to-reach drugs what he needed for his illness.
Caro Quintero, a criminal’s dynasty
The founder of the Guadalajara cartel is the eldest of his nine brothers, and some of them are also linked to organized crime.
He also explained that the capo needed surgery at the time, but it required an ambulatory operating room and at least a week of bed rest.
However, Caro Quintero was unwilling to take that risk for fear that the authorities would seize the opportunity to arrest him and he would not be able to escape while he recovered.
In this last meeting with the journalist, the drug trafficker expressed interest in some sort of agreement with the authorities in exchange for his release.
Through drugs, money and many deaths, Rafael Caro Quintero began to build his own myth and thus he won an infamous crown: that of the “narco of narcos” (DEF file)
—Would you agree to a pact with the Mexican government??— Hernández asked Caro Quintero after Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that after taking office he would consider the possibility of an amnesty plan for convicted drug traffickers.
“As long as things are, no,” the boss replied, but without completely ruling out the possibility.
“On what terms would you surrender?”
– That they respect my rights, not that they trample me like they do, they have given the benefits to all my co-defendants. Why didn’t they give them to me? Fonseca won extradition, why are you holding me up?
Espinoza Aguilar and Caro Quintero’s son was registered at Puente Grande prison in Jalisco. (University)
The wife of Rafael Caro Quintero, whom he married while imprisoned in Puente Grande in 2010, announced the end of their marriage.
In an interview with Ahtziri Cárdenas for Univisión News, Diana Espinoza Aguilar announced that she is divorcing the “Prince”. take care of their three childrenwho have been the subject of “humiliation” and multiple accusations due to Caro Quintero’s criminal history.
“You must know that I am breaking up with Rafael, he is free, I am free too, I have three children who need me very much, who They need me to be with them in all aspectssaid Diana Espinoza, also known as Altagracia Espinoza.
Diana Espinoza was beauty queen at Puente Grande women’s prison in 2010
Of the three children that Espinoza Aguilar has, only one is the son of Rafael Caro Quintero. It is about a boy who is nine years old at the time of this publication and as a former leader of the Caborca cartel he was still in prison. The little boy, whose identity has not been released, was registered in Jalisco prison.
According to those interviewed, the son she had with the criminal boss was even a target of a attempted kidnappingHe was also discriminated against in such a way that he was denied access to some schools.
“There was one school where I had to say it was discrimination and that I would sit and wait for the principal to explain why they couldn’t admit the child.”
Currently, as reported by Ahtziri Cárdenas, the relationship between Rafael Caro Quintero and his young son is very close by, since he often visits him in the Altiplano Prisonin Almoloya de Juárez, state of Mexico, where he was admitted after his arrest on July 15, 2022.