Mexico delivers powerful drug bosses to the USA

Shortly before the expiry of avoiding trade tariffs, Mexico sends a signal of good will to US President Donald Trump: 29 criminals imprisoned for drug deals have been delivered to the USA, as the Mexican authorities said. According to media reports, this also includes the former drug boss Rafael Caro Quintero. He was as powerful in Mexico in the 1980s as Pablo Escobar in Colombia.

According to the Mexican government, deliveries are part of the cooperation with the United States with respect for the sovereignty of both states. Officially, the identity of the people delivered was initially not announced.

According to matching media reports,-in addition to Caro Quintero-the former head of the infamous drug cartel Los Zetas, Miguel Ángel Treviño, Aka Z-40, and his successor Omar Treviño, Z-42, were also delivered. However, the drug boss most searched by the USA was Caro Quintero.

The former leader of the Guadalajara cartel is said to have ordered the murder of Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, an official of the DEA, in 1985. Caro Quintero was considered “Narco de Narcos” in Mexico in the 1980s, the “drug boss of drug bosses”.

In 2013, Caro Quintero was released due to alleged procedural errors after serving 28 out of a total of 40 years in prison. The Supreme Court of Mexicos later raised the decision, but Caro Quintero had already been submerged. The US State Department exposed $ 20 million bounty. He was finally arrested again in 2022.

High-ranking Mexican officials are currently on security and trade talks in Washington. This is intended to prevent the trade restrictions announced by Trump. The Republican wants to impose tariffs from Mexico and Canada on March 4. “From Mexico and Canada, drugs still flock to our country in very high and unacceptable quantities,” he wrote Truth Social to justify his online language tube.