The secretary, listening to the subdued sobs inside the office, felt a bit distressed herself and took out a cigarette to light for herself. Just after a couple of drags, a thick voice sounded from behind her.
"Is Mr. Carlos in?" Ajit asked.
The secretary quickly turned around and saw a man in his forties standing behind her, with unkempt hair, a very thin physique, and sharp, penetrating eyes that seemed capable of scrutinizing the soul of another.
"Mr. Quintero." The secretary called out in a hurry.
This was none other than Rafael Caro Quintero, one of the three leaders of the Guadalajara Cartel, nicknamed "Doctor."
A cultivation expert and a farmer by origin, he was born in a village of Sinaloa State in 1952, known as the "Cradle of Drug Lords."
Quintero liked to show off; he was fond of displaying wealth and exotic animals. He specifically raised 17 hippos in his private zoo, but after the "Camarena" incident, he fled, and those hippos were left unattended.
