Rafael Caro Quintero (born October 3, 1952) is a former Mexican drug lord who founded the disintegrated Guadalajara Cartel with Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo and other drug traffickers in the 1970s. He is the brother of the incarcerated drug lord Miguel Caro Quintero, founder and former leader of the extinct Sonora Cartel.
Rafael Caro Quintero (born October 24, 1954) is an incarcerated Mexican drug lord born in La Noria, Badiraguato, Sinaloa and was a co-founder, with Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, of the Guadalajara Cartel and Sonora Cartel. Upon of the cartels' disintegration, its leaders were incorporated mostly into the Tijuana Cartel and Sinaloa Cartel. His uncle Juan Jose Quintero Payan used to be the one the heads of the Juarez Cartel.
