Mexican druglord Rafael Caro Quintero released after 28 years in prison

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Mexican Druglord Rafael Caro Quintero Released After 28 Years In Prison

MEXICO – August 10, 2013; A Mexican court on Friday ordered the release of the druglord Rafael Caro Quintero after 28 years in prison, overturning his conviction for the 1985 kidnap and killing of an American Drug Enforcement Administration agent.

The brutal murder marked a low point in US-Mexico relations. The court threw out Caro Quintero’s 40-year sentence for the murder of Enrique Camarena, ruling he was improperly tried in a federal court, for a crime that should have been treated as a state offence.

A court official said that Caro Quintero would be released because he had already served his time on other charges.

The 61-year-old is considered the godfather of Mexican drug trafficking. He established a powerful cartel in Sinaloa that later split into some of Mexico’s largest cartels, including the Sinaloa and Juarez cartels.

Mexico’s relations with Washington were damaged when Caro Quintero ordered Camarena kidnapped, tortured and killed, purportedly because he was angry about a raid on a 220-acre marijuana plantation in central Mexico named Rancho Bufalo, that was seized by Mexican authorities at Camarena’s insistence.

The raid netted up to five tonnes of marijuana and cost Caro Quintero and his colleagues an estimated $8bn (£5.2bn) in lost sales.

Camarena was kidnapped on 7 February 1985, in Guadalajara, a major drug trafficking centre. [read more...]

Full story: http://www.pattayadailynews.com/en/2013/08/10/mexican-druglord-rafael-caro-quintero-released-after-28-years-in-prison/

-- Pattaya Daily News 2013-08-10

[HOOD Robin]

In my opinion very dumb decision to release this godfather ! MANY new murders will follow in a short time....

[SOTIRIOS]

.....talk about slow justice.......I guess he was 'taken out of the way'.....for someone else to take over.......

[tinhead]

Just the Mexican gov't giving the US gov't the middle finger - stop messing in our affairs is the bottom line. I tend to think there will be such a trend in upcoming years where other regimes do things specifically to spite the US -- as a reaction (delayed, based on perception or not) of the previously cited meddling.

[ableguy]

Lets face it Mexico is a failed country,

[hawker9000]

Just the Mexican gov't giving the US gov't the middle finger - stop messing in our affairs is the bottom line. I tend to think there will be such a trend in upcoming years where other regimes do things specifically to spite the US -- as a reaction (delayed, based on perception or not) of the previously cited meddling.

Ahhhh yes - more dividends from Obama's apology tour. It just gets better & better. He's done such great things for America's standing throughout the world, hasn't he? Boy, they're sure respecting the good ol' USA now! And for all you "drugs are no different than alcohol" users out there, here's the kind of monster your drug dollars help support! Well done. Why there should be some fresh bodies - possibly without heads - showing up south of the border any day now!

[GentlemanJim]

Lets face it Mexico is a failed country,

Yes. After all we can use Thailand as a benchmark

[Scott]

An inflammatory post has been removed.

[MickGC]

Just the Mexican gov't giving the US gov't the middle finger - stop messing in our affairs is the bottom line. I tend to think there will be such a trend in upcoming years where other regimes do things specifically to spite the US -- as a reaction (delayed, based on perception or not) of the previously cited meddling.

Ahhhh yes - more dividends from Obama's apology tour. It just gets better & better. He's done such great things for America's standing throughout the world, hasn't he? Boy, they're sure respecting the good ol' USA now! And for all you "drugs are no different than alcohol" users out there, here's the kind of monster your drug dollars help support! Well done. Why there should be some fresh bodies - possibly without heads - showing up south of the border any day now!

If marijuana was legal, as it had been for thousand of years before the USA decided it was an evil drug and forced hemp producers from around the world to destroy their crops, this problem would not have come about. The war on drugs is a crock of s**t. It funds the massive privately run incarceration industry in the US where more people are in prison than the rest of the world combined. Also hemp was in competition with the new nylon/rayon industries back in the 40's. The powerful and rich owners of these industries used their influence to appoint their own anti hemp people into congress. These same people created the massive cluster <deleted> problem we have today.

So easy to research this. Just do an internet search "why did marijuana become illegal"

below is one result

http://wafreepress.org/article/090304marijuana.shtml

[hawker9000]

Just the Mexican gov't giving the US gov't the middle finger - stop messing in our affairs is the bottom line. I tend to think there will be such a trend in upcoming years where other regimes do things specifically to spite the US -- as a reaction (delayed, based on perception or not) of the previously cited meddling.

Ahhhh yes - more dividends from Obama's apology tour. It just gets better & better. He's done such great things for America's standing throughout the world, hasn't he? Boy, they're sure respecting the good ol' USA now! And for all you "drugs are no different than alcohol" users out there, here's the kind of monster your drug dollars help support! Well done. Why there should be some fresh bodies - possibly without heads - showing up south of the border any day now!

If marijuana was legal, as it had been for thousand of years before the USA decided it was an evil drug and forced hemp producers from around the world to destroy their crops, this problem would not have come about. The war on drugs is a crock of s**t. It funds the massive privately run incarceration industry in the US where more people are in prison than the rest of the world combined. Also hemp was in competition with the new nylon/rayon industries back in the 40's. The powerful and rich owners of these industries used their influence to appoint their own anti hemp people into congress. These same people created the massive cluster <deleted> problem we have today.

So easy to research this. Just do an internet search "why did marijuana become illegal"

below is one result

http://wafreepress.org/article/090304marijuana.shtml

Ah, a Quinterista. 'Would've thought they'd all be out celebrating.

[wooloomooloo]

I know of many people that travel to Mexico for their holidays, but it's the last place I'd consider. I don't know of anyone to come unstuck on their holiday.

But the level of crime in North and South America is not to my liking and will forever steer well clear.

[Scott]

<snipped> It funds the massive privately run incarceration industry in the US where more people are in prison than the rest of the world combined.

More people in the US prisons than the rest of the world combined? That is a lot of people in prison.

[hawker9000]

... in the US where more people are in prison than the rest of the world combined.

So easy to research this. Just do an internet search "why did marijuana become illegal"

below is one result

http://wafreepress.org/article/090304marijuana.shtml

LOL I'm sure that little pearl is in the Drug Users Handbook, "Drug Use for Dummies", and "What Not to Tell the Judge..." somewhere, but doesn't include Chinese, Russian, or N. Korean labor camps I'll bet... And that Washington Free Press link. Oh yes, the very epitome of journalistic accuracy and objectivity in reporting. That said, and ICW the article, I personally DO think marijuana should be legally prescribable by MDs, in a regulated manner to prevent its being freely distributed merely for recreational use, for cancer patients and others in pain, and that it's not the government's place to second-guess that (or any treatment determined to be actually effective by the legitimate medical community). Yes, the government's got that wrong. The case for medicinal marijuana treatment is specific however, and hardly a justification for legalizing drugs generally!

Pushing all drug-induced fog & delirium further aside, while the US does have the largest incarceration rate in the world according to many sources (and it's been suggested that this has to do with sentence lengths in the US), it certainly does not have more people incarcerated than the rest of the world combined. Or even close. Check out the BBC World Prison Populations page... So typical of the big lies one expects from those doing their darndest to misinform the public, rationalize the inhumanity & brutality that is the illegal drug industry, promote the idea (to those without critical thinking skills) that "drugs are really OK", and dilute the important and worthwhile, but so far unsuccessful, effort to eliminate this scourge.

[hyperdimension]

A lot of bad stuff happened during Prohibition (of alcohol), not too different to the crime and violence that has been going on with the illegal drug trade. Should alcohol have remained illegal, or should drugs like cannabis have not been made illegal?

[A1Str8]

And now he is gonna control his network from the elder care while playing mahjong with the fellow old folks.

[Chicog]

Just what Mexico needs, another drug lord.

[hawker9000]

Just what Mexico needs, another drug lord.

Don't worry - at least we know he's not dealing in alcohol, and that's worse!