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Rafael Caro Quintero

1952 - Today

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Rafael "Rafa" Caro Quintero (born October 24, 1952) is a Mexican 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rafael Caro Quintero has received more than 11,152,882 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Rafael Caro Quintero is the 130th most popular extremist, the 106th most popular biography from Mexico and the 2nd most popular Mexican Extremist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Rafael Caro Quintero ranks 130 out of 283. Before him are Aldrich Ames, David Berkowitz, Alexandros Koryzis, Stephen Paddock, Rodney Alcala, and Joaquin Murrieta. After him are Josef Blösche, Robert Stroud, Albert Anastasia, Charles Whitman, Fred West, and Jalaluddin Haqqani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Rafael Caro Quintero ranks 150. Before him are Rex Tillerson, Marilyn Chambers, David A. Stewart, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, Petar Stoyanov, and Nikolai Andrianov. After him are Anote Tong, Jean-Dominique Bauby, Per Petterson, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Edward Zwick, and Sergei Stepashin.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Rafael Caro Quintero ranks 106 out of 729. Before him are Ramon Novarro (1899), Agustín Lara (1897), Jacob Bekenstein (1947), Miguel Miramón (1832), Mariano Arista (1802), and Joaquin Murrieta (1829). After him are Anastasio Bustamante (1780), Jorge Negrete (1910), Jacqueline Andere (1938), Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada (1823), Laura Esquivel (1950), and Adolfo Ruiz Cortines (1889).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Mexico

Among extremists born in Mexico, Rafael Caro Quintero ranks 2. Before him are Joaquin Murrieta (1829).

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