Mexico releases the operatives of cartel, including Rafael Caro Quintero, to the US custody

On Thursday, the Mexican government sent US Openers of the United States wanted by US authorities, including one notorious Lord drug that US officials wanted to bring justice for 40 years, according to the US and Mexican government.

The handover included not only a few powerful cartel leaders, but also some of the most fertile killers in Mexican crimes. The number and significance of the people who were sent to the United States at the same time made an event to one of Mexico’s most important efforts in modern drug history to send people to people to face accusations in US federal courts.

Development came as Trump’s administration vigorously leaned against the Mexican government to reinforce its fight against cartel, and the concession of Mexican officials seems like a early victory for President Trump in what is likely to be a longer fight against criminal groups.

Among those who flew to the United States was Rafael Caro Quintero, the founder of the Drugs for Drugs for Sinalo, who was convicted in Mexico for the Master of the 1985 Enrique Camaren murder, an agent from the drug implementation administration, he said in a statement. Mr. Caroa Quinter’s self -construction has been all but an obsession with officials at a drug agency for decades.

“As President Trump clearly said, cartels are terrorist groups, and this is the Ministry of Justice dedicated to the destruction of cartel and transnational gangs,” Mrs. Bondi said. “We will prosecute these criminals to the most part of the law in honor of brave agents for law enforcement that have dedicated their careers – in some cases, given their lives – to protect innocent people from the whips of violent cartels.”

The transfer of the demanded men, who were in Mexican custody, came as a high -level delegation from Mexico to Washington to meet with senior US officials to draw a security agreement in the midst of the tension of two countries. The Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced a statement announcing the release of cartel information before Mrs. Bondi issued her own statement.

“This action is part of the work of coordination, cooperation and bilateral reciprocity within respect for the sovereignty of both countries,” the Mexican statement said.

Trump’s administration has been hired in recent weeks heated discussion How far – and how difficult – to go into pushing the Mexican government to cope with cartels, which for years have pierced bloody violence in Mexico and smuggled countless amounts of illegal drugs into the United States.

Some White House officials have adopted aggressive posture, advocating a one -sided military action against the lord of drugs and a cartel infrastructure in Mexico to reduce narcotics, such as fentanis, to cross the border. Others have been claimed to a pragmatic approach, saying that an increased partnership with the Mexican government will provide permanent cooperation in issues such as migration.

In the midst of these discussions, Mr. Trump and his allies have executed tremendous diplomatic and economic pressure on President Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, including threats to impose steep tariffs to their country.

On Thursday, at a joint press conference with British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, Mr Trump kept that pressure saying that the flow of deadly drugs was not stopped across the southern border.

“The drugs are still pouring into our country, killing hundreds of thousands of people,” he said, though the death of an overdose has fallen lately, According to public health officers. “We lose significantly over 100,000 people. I mean, dead.”

However, the decision of Mexico to send closed merchants to the United States was greeted in US circles for law enforcement as a major victory and a clear signal that Mrs. Sheinbaum planned to cooperate with Trump’s administration in the cracking of the cartel.

“This is an incredibly important moment and indicates a true turning point,” said Ray Donovan, former head of the Dea Operation “,” It shows that President Sheinbaum’s willingness to work with us to target and disassemble criminal organizations that have influenced the United States and Mexico in generations. “

Mr. Caro Quintero is an extraordinary figure in Mexico. He was also straightened by US federal drug agents because of the role he played in the torture and killing of Mr. Camaren, who was known as Kiki while working secretly in Mexico. Mr. Camaren’s murder has long been observed as a kind of catalyst who brought the US implementation deeper into the cataclysmic war of Mexico against cartels.

After being sentenced to 40 years in prison, Mr. Caro Quintero was released from Mexican custody in legal technical capacity in 2013 and returned to hide in Rural Sinaloi, his home country. Ultimately it was captured Mexican authorities Near San Simón, a city in Sinaloi, 2022.

Just a few hours after it was detained, a military helicopter crashed in front of the nearby Los Mochis city, killing 14 Mexican marines on board. At that time, President Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said that the killed troops were involved in a mission to catch the former master of the crime.

Mr. Caro Quintero has been charged with several drug counts at the Federal District Court in Brooklyn since 2020. And there he could have appeared before the federal judge on Friday, said one of the people who were familiar with the issue.

Mexico also released into American custody Miguel ángel Treviño Morales, the infamously brutal former leader of Cartel Zetas who was trapped in Mexico in 2013said the people.

Mr. Trevista, who is better known as the Z-40, after his radio call in Zetas, is widely considered one of the poorest operatives of the cartel in Mexico after helping to perfect the practice of using the massacre as messages.

His organization was founded by highly dressed and very armed Mexican commandos, who initially got a job to go for gangs, but in the end they sold their services special, the Gulf Cartel. After the wealth came – and intense bloodshed – Zetas, with Mr. Trevin in their upper ranks, they came out on their own and eventually became one of the most powerful and most terrible criminal organizations in Mexico.

Mr. Trevista is confronted with overlapping drug charges at the Federal Courts in Texas, including those in Austin and Ladro.

On the list of those sent to the United States, there were other leaders – and Zeta killers. There were also top operatives of other criminal groups, including the new generation of Jalisco Cartel and La Familia Michoacana Cartel.

One of those who detained US federal agents was José ángel Canobbio Insunz, who is said to be the right man Iván Archivalda Guzmán Salazar, son of the infamous Lord drug Joaquín Guzmán Loera, better known as El Chapo. Mr. Canobbio Insunz, who faces accusations in Chicago, was arrested in Mexico last week.