The narco of Narcos has already been presented to the United States justice. He had his first appearance on Friday before an instruction judge of the Eastern District Court of New York, the same one that has taken the cases against, Genaro García Luna and. The 72 -year -old hood, founder of the Guadalajara poster, declared an extensive battery of drug trafficking charges, organized crime and in the 1980s. After a hunt that extended for four decades, the US authorities seek revenge and assured that they will ask that Caro be sentenced to the death penalty or perpetual chain, as well as, ancient leader of the Juarez cartel and brother of the lord of the heavens.
“Today is a day that will be remembered in the history of the DEA,” said agent Frank Tarentino, at a press conference outside the Brooklyn court, the destination that the United States has chosen for the most sensitive cases against Mexican cartels. Tarentino spoke in the name of an agency that has assumed the case against Caro as a “personal matter” and that has been seminal to define the relationship of the anti -drug body towards Latin America. “We will never allow a DEA agent to be killed and try to get yours,” Tarentino warned.
The US authorities referred to both drug traffickers as “terrorists” and evidenced the White House turn in the war on drugs under the administration of, with more severe sentences under the argument that drug trafficking is a threat to national security and must be completely “eradicated.” “For decades, Rafael Caro Quintero and Vicente Carrillo Fuentes have flooded the United States and other countries with drugs, violence and chaos, killing so many in their search of power and control,” said John Durham, the prosecutor of the case.
The defendants were presented at a stage of the process known as the roots, in which they are made available to a magistrate, the charges against them are read and precautionary measures are determined. As part of an open cause in 2015,: one for illegal use of firearms, two for international conspiracy for the distribution of narcotics and another for leading a continuous criminal company (equivalent in Mexico to organized crime). In that last crime, an aggravating conspiracy is included to commit murder, although the accusations contained in other files are expected to be incorporated into an eventual trial. The cause for kidnapping, torture and murder of agent Camarena dates back to 1987 and was opened in California. The narco of Narcos was imprisoned in Mexico from 1985 to 2013, when a procedural error allowed him to recover his freedom until he was recaptured in July 2022 in the Sierra de Sinaloa.
Caro Quintero requested during the hearing that medications were administered and stressed that his arrival in the United States was not part of a formal extradition process, according to the first reports. It will remain between bars in the, which also houses Zambada. In turn, Carrillo Fuentes, 62, was accused of seven crimes for drug trafficking, organized crime with the aggravating murder, illicit use of firearms and conspiracy for money laundering. In 2021 he was sentenced in Mexico to 28 years in prison for his criminal history at the head of the Juarez cartel.
In both cases, the United States has legally referred to the arrival of bosses as “expulsions” from Mexico, after the unpublished operation of 29 drug traffickers who are now under their custody and controversy around the legal conditions of shipments. His Mexican counterparts assured that the controversial transfer was given for “national security reasons” and “for the benefit of Mexicans.” They also said that the rights of the people involved were respected and that there were no incidents in the operation, which occurred in the midst of the negotiations between the two countries to stop Trump’s tariff threats. The next audience of Carrillo Fuentes is scheduled for March 25, while the Caro Quintero is scheduled a day later.
