Diana Espinoza Aguilar Details of Bio, Age, and Family
Diana Espinoza Aguilar was a beauty queen and the wife of Mexican drug cartel boss Rafael Caro Quintero. She was sanctioned by the US Treasury Department for the killing of a federal agent in the 80s, holding assets, and conducting business for his wanted husband. The treasury froze her assets as she had drug trafficking links. She served prison time for drug trafficking and money laundering.
Diana Espinoza Aguilar Personal Life
Diana Espinoza Aguilar was born on July 17 1970 in Chihuahua. She was married to a Columbian drug trafficker. The two were arrested in 2008 and sentenced for drug trafficking and money laundering. While in the Puente Grande prison, she met her second husband Rafael Caro Quintero who was serving his forty-year jail term. He saw her on TV in beauty contest photos and found a way to interact with her which he did. They started dating and got married after they served their sentences.
Who is Diana Aguilar’s Husband Rafael Caro Quintero?
Rafael Caro Quintero is a Mexican drug lord and co-founder of the now Guadalajara Cartel working with Miguel Angel and other drug traffickers around the 70s. they shipped large quantities of marijuana from Mexico to the United States. He is among the pioneers of the drug trade in Mexico and was a powerful drug trafficker of his time. He first worked for the drug traffickers Ernesto Fonseca and Pedro Aviles Perez then moved to form the Guadalajara Cartel.
He was charged with the kidnapping of a US Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique Camarena, his pilot Alfredo Avelar, writer John Walker, and Alberto Radelat a dental student. The murders were intense and strained the ties between Mexico and the US and this was dramatized in the Netflix series Narcos. He tried to escape and hide in Costa Rica but was arrested and deported to Mexico and sentenced to murder and 40 years imprisonment.
After his arrest, his cartel fell apart and its leaders joined the Juarez, Sinaloa, and Tijuana Cartel. In 2013, he was released after being in prison for 28 years for improper trial. Unfortunately, a Mexican federal court issued an arrest warrant for drug trafficking and murder. He went into hiding in the US, Mexico, and other areas and the United States offered a reward of 20 million for any information about his whereabouts, putting him among the highest rewards among fugitives on the FBI’s ten most wanted fugitives list. He was arrested on July 15 2022 in Mexico and is currently waiting for extradition to the United States.
His brother Miguel Caro Quintero is the founder and led the Sonora Cartel. Rafael started growing marijuana as a teenager on a small scale at his brother’s ranch and as the demand grew, he bought more ranches and started making more money and becoming more influential. Rafael has four children from his marriage to Mara Elizabeth Lerma in the mid-1970s. The marriage was not successful but they have Hector Rafael Caro, Roxana Elizabeth, Marion Yibran, and Henoch Emilio Caro Elenes. He later married Diana Espinoza Aguilar.