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Sofia Conesa

Sara Cosío was a Mexican socialite who was the lover of Guadalajara Cartel lieutenant Rafael Caro Quintero during the 1980s.

In the show Narcos Mexico,she is played by Tessa Ia and goes by the name Sofia Conesa

Biography[]

Sara Cosío was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, the daughter of Secretary of Education Octavio César Cosío Vidaurri and the niece of Governor Guillermo Cosío Vidaurri. She had a privileged upbringing, and she attended the Autonomous University of Guadalajara during the 1980s. In 1980, she met Rafael Caro Quintero when he interrupted her geology class to take her professor hostage and force him to help him find aquifers to grow marijuana. She met him again at a nightclub in 1983, where she drunkenly spurned his advances while making fun of his outfit, having initially mistaken him for a waiter. However, she met him again at the wedding of Rodolfo Sanchez, and she was touched when he asked her to dance, only to be rebuffed by her boyfriend. That same night, however, she joined him as he smoked, and they had their first kiss; this soon developed into a secret love affair. She eventually convinced Caro Quintero to "kidnap" her at Christmas time, and Caro Quintero and a few other gunmen broke into her mansion, claiming to be communist guerrillas, before taking Sara. She moved into Caro Quintero's mansion, but he was forced to return her shortly after due to the start of a massive manhunt for him. He met her again at a nightclub in 1984, where he got into a fight with Amado Carrillo Fuentes for dancing and flirting with her. In 1985, following Caro Quintero's involvement in the kidnapping, torture, and murder of DEA agent Kiki Camarena in 1985, he kidnapped Cosio once again as she was on her way to church with her mother, and the couple fled to Costa Rica. There, they were tracked down by police officers and soldiers led by Guillermo Calderoni, who forced Cosio to identify her lover in order to save herself. After the scandal, she moved away from public life for many years.

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