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Rafael Caro Quintero was captured twice and the first, in 1985 in Costa Rica, would not have occurred without Sara Cosío, the drug trafficker’s partner.
Rafael Caro Quintero was arrested on July 15, 2022 by Navy agents after almost nine years fugitive. (Free Press Photo: AFP)
The name of Rafael Caro Quintero He has relevant again this February 27 after the authorities of Mexico They will extradite him and another 28 drug traffickers to the United States.
Quintero, popularly known as “The Narco de Narcos”, He was the founder of the extinct Cartel of Guadalajara And he was arrested On July 15, 2022 in Chihuahua after being more than nine years fugitive from justice.
However, another important name for the story of Caro Quintero is Sara Cosío, The supposed romantic interest of the drug trafficker and that it was important for the first capture of Quintero in 1985.
Daughter of the former Secretary of Public Education of Jalisco, Sara Cosío would have met Quintero at a party, And from that moment they began to relate.
After Caro Quintero starred in the death of an infiltrated agent of the DEA, He fled in Costa Rica, accompanied by Sara Cosío.
At that time, Cosío’s parents said their daughter would have been kidnapped, but when she arrived at Costa Rica, Sara began calling her parents to tell them that she was not kidnapped, a moment that she took advantage of the DEA to track the calls of the Quintero couple and thus stop him in Costa Rica.