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Rafael Caro Quintero

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Rafael "Rafa" Caro Quintero (born October 24, 1952) is a Mexican former drug lord who co-founded the now-disintegrated Guadalajara Cartel with Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo and other drug traffickers in the late 1970s. He is the brother of fellow drug trafficker Miguel Caro Quintero, founder and former leader of the defunct Sonora Cartel. Having formed the Guadalajara Cartel in the 1970s, Caro Quintero worked with Gallardo, Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, and Pedro Avilés Pérez by shipping large quantities of marijuana to the United States from Mexico. He was responsible for the kidnapping of United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, Camarena's pilot Alfredo Zavala Avelar, the American writer John Clay Walker, and dentistry student Alberto Radelat in 1985. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rafael Caro Quintero is the 125th most popular extremist (up from 130th in 2019), the 92nd most popular biography from Mexico (up from 106th in 2019) and the most popular Mexican Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Rafael Caro Quintero ranks 125 out of 283. Before him are Richard Ramirez, Anwar al-Awlaki, Jack Unterweger, Saif al-Adel, Dokka Umarov, and Kang Kek Iew. After him are Kōzō Okamoto, Albert Anastasia, Luciano Leggio, Dinko Šakić, David Berkowitz, and Omar Abdel-Rahman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Rafael Caro Quintero ranks 149. Before him are Jonathan Frakes, Alexander Ankvab, George Allen, Edward Zwick, Jean-Dominique Bauby, and Charles M. Rice. After him are Yoshitaka Amano, Dirceu, Yuriko Koike, David Icke, Masaki Yokotani, and Uljana Semjonova.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Rafael Caro Quintero ranks 92 out of 729. Before him are Pedro Infante (1917), Miguel Alemán Valdés (1900), José Sánchez del Río (1913), Chespirito (1929), Jacob Bekenstein (1947), and Adolfo de la Huerta (1881). After him are Yola Ramírez (1935), Henry Eyring (1901), Javier Aguirre (1958), Miguel Miramón (1832), Laura Harring (1964), and Pedro Rodríguez (1940).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Mexico

Among extremists born in Mexico, Rafael Caro Quintero ranks 1. After him are Joaquin Murrieta (1829).

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