In the Mexican underworld, the surname Quintero weighs like lead. It is not only part of the identity of one of the founders and leaders of the Guadalajara Cartel, but also of several members of his family who, like Rafael Caro Quintero, were involved in drug trafficking and organized crime.
While the so-called Narco of Narcos became one of the main figures of drug trafficking in Mexico for his involvement in the murder of DEA Special Agent Enrique Kiki Camarena, some of his cousins and nephews followed in his footsteps from the shadows.
One of them is Ismael Quintero Arellanes, who, according to reports, has been seen in the hearings Rafael Caro Quintero has faced in a court in the Eastern District of New York after, in an unprecedented and unexpected operation, he was handed over along with 28 other perpetrators of violence to US authorities at the end of last February.
Although his nephew, better known as El Fierro or Mayelo, was not part of this group of leaders and members of criminal organizations expelled from Mexico, the charges against him in the United States have led him to be a co-defendant with his uncle in a case presided over by Judge Frederick Block in Brooklyn, New York.
