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Author | Ríodoce Editorial Team
Date | August 5, 2025
Time | 2:08 pm
After it was announced that Ismael El Mayo Zambada would not face the death penalty, it was immediately revealed that Rafael Caro Quintero and Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, alias El Viceroy, had also requested to be spared capital punishment.
All three are on trial in the United States, and for months they have been negotiating with the US government to be spared the death penalty.
The most surprising case was that of Caro Quintero, because he is accused of several crimes, including the kidnapping and murder of US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent “Kiki” Camarena in 1985.
"Dear Judge Block: United States v. Rafael Caro Quintero, Criminal Case No. 15-208 (S-3) (FB). The government respectfully submits this letter to inform the Court and the defense that the Attorney General has authorized and directed this Office not to seek the death penalty against the defendant Rafael Caro Quintero," said the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
For its part, the U.S. Attorney's Office also requested on Tuesday that the death penalty not be considered against Vicente Carrillo Fuentes.
El Viceroy, brother of the late Amado Carrillo, El Señor de los Cielos, was part of a group of 29 drug traffickers extradited to the United States at the beginning of the year.
The US position on these requests and decisions to withdraw the death penalty is still unknown.
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I don't feel any sympathy for that scumbag Caro Quintero. Every time I see Kiki's wife talk in interviews it breaks my heart. What they did to this poor guy is horrible. If Caro gets the death penalty he will be lucky because all we do is put him to sleep painless death. Poor Kiki suffered days of torture from this bastard. Nuff Said!!!
ReplyDelete1112pm that's a negative chief.
DeleteDidn’t we already establish he did nothing other then be in the same place… we all know cia got him and Mexican police helped
Delete...Under the CIA's orders and Caro has been claiming his innocence and U.S collusion since the 1980's. Look at the big picture. The 80's were a pivotal point in history. Mexico sold off a lot of the its national industries to the gringos and the U.S government was involved in several drug related scandals with Latin America relating to the installation of dictators, the overthrowing of governments, drug trafficking to fund proxy wars and a whole lot of other evil stuff. I'd be very skeptical of anything the U.S government claims. Mexico is corrupt on a national level no doubt, but the U.S is corrupt on a international level, which is far worse.
DeleteYou have no idea what happened. It's America
DeleteCaro quintero didn't kill him. It was his own scumbag people.
DeleteEse pochito recivio lo que se merecia.
DeleteI like how all these hood rats think they are in the know about the CIA being behind his death. You don't actually know shit because you don't the clearance, you just watched some YouTube videos and now you think you are privy to what would be privileged information. Silly lil hood rats.
DeleteCIA didn't order shit.
Delete@12.51. By that logic no Cartel Boss is ever guilty of murder. When Amado sat watching the tortures and murders of a dozen innocent men he suspected of robbing a shipment (they didn't) it wasn't just his "scumbag people", it was him. His orders. Quintero ordered the kidnap, ordered the torture, and the fact that an ex CIA operative and a dozen other powerful men were in the house too does NOTHING to diminish his responsibility, let alone exonerate him.
Delete@9.54. I agree with everything you say, but none of it does anything to lessen RCQs guilt. Nobody ever claimed he acted alone. Berrellez and Lawrence Harrison and those 2 Wisconsin academics and all the others who implicated Felix Rodriguez, none of them claim that Quintero is innocent of any of the charges against him, or that his voice was somehow doctored in the audio of the torture, or that other peoples involvement is a mitigating factor.
Delete602, I never said Caro was innocent, dudes guilty of a whole lot of shit, including murder, but Kiki's murder, I'm skeptical about that. As far as the recording goes, its only been talked about but never realeased to the public, or atleast from my understanding. And lets just say it is released after 40 years, how reliable is it with all of that AI technology? If it was released 35, 30 years ago, i would've bought it, but now. No way Jose. They got 2pac and Chalino coming out with new AI corridos that you couldnt tell the difference. 357, some of the stuff i mentioned was exposed and is public record. Now if you are one to believe everything the American government feeds you, then all I can say is you're one brainwashed and naive bootlicker.
DeleteI remember my first beer. Butt Chuggin! Nuff Said!!!
ReplyDeleteDont mess with TRUMP!!
ReplyDelete“Working deals with the government” is what snitchaloas do best
ReplyDeleteIm not sure if you’re not keeping up, but all 3 will NOT be getting the death penalty. Looks like you’re behind on this topic.
ReplyDeleteI went to Southwest High School in the South Bay area of San Diego with Kiki's son. Very respectful, stand up person, mature beyond his years as a teen. He went on to become a D.A. or Assistant D.A. here in San Diego as well. Ran into him once at a Vons or CVS and he still had his red VW perfectly restored from what I gathered. Very humble guy. I have an old Narco book I bought in Mexico City while on layover to Cancun. There is a picture of him as a young lad saluting his father's coffin as it was brought off a plane when they brought him home. It's very hard to try to imagine his thought process as a kid just taking in all that pain and confussion as he watched everything unfold.
ReplyDeleteThe young lad was the prosecutor in south bay Dago when my pal, caught with a few elbows of pot was arraigned before him in court.
DeleteYoung Kiki was OUTRAGED, wanted to put my pal before the firing squad IMMEDIATELY..
Luckily for my buddy, his next appearance was with another attorney, and he got to plead out to something minor.
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It’s all a dog & pony show
ReplyDeleteThey are not facing the death penalty.
ReplyDelete20 years of appeals after death sentence applied.
DeleteThese aren't spring chickens, most of 'em..
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Kiki was killed by his own for not knowing how to mind his business
ReplyDeleteHe was an agent you idiot
DeleteThey're implying involvement other than cartel.
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