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Héctor Luis Palma Salazar (born April 29, 1960), commonly known as "El Güero Palma", is a Mexican former drug trafficker and leader of the Sinaloa Cartel alongside Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán. [1] After his boss Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo ordered the brutal murder of his family, Palma set out to avenge them. [ 2 ]
Map of Mexican cartels' drug traffic routes in Mexico based on a 2012 Stratfor report The U.S. State Department estimates that 90 percent of cocaine entering the United States is produced in Colombia [ 117 ] (followed by Bolivia and Peru ) [ 118 ] and that the main transit route is through Mexico. [ 36 ]
15 April – At least seven people are killed and another is injured during a mass shooting in La Palma resort in Cortazar, Guanajuato. [444] 10 May – Four people are killed during clashes at the Pharr–Reynosa International Bridge, on the Mexico–United States border, between police and suspected cartel members. [445]
The Sinaloa Cartel stood to its firm intention to become the "hegemonic drug trafficking organization in Mexico." [12] And to do so, it had to control the cities along the U.S.-Mexico border. Back in the early 2000s, if a different drug trafficking organization wanted to traffic narcotics through a different corridor, they had to pay a fee to ...
Narcos: Mexico is an American crime drama television series created and produced by Chris Brancato, Carlo Bernard, and Doug Miro that premiered on Netflix on November 16, 2018. It was originally intended to be the fourth season of the Netflix series Narcos , but it was ultimately developed as a companion series.
Mexico had 26 homicides per 100,000 people in 2017, then the rate spiked to 29 between 2018 and 2020, according to government statistics. Last year, the government reported, the rate was 24 ...
Mexican actor Luis Gerardo Méndez, who plays police officer Victor Tapia in "Narcos: Mexico," talks about his role and drug trafficking's effects in his country.
Rafael Caro Quintero (known as "El Narco de Narcos"): former drug lord of the Guadalajara Cartel; Héctor Luis Palma Salazar (known as "El Güero"): former drug lord of the Sinaloa Cartel; Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán: former drug lord of the Sinaloa Cartel, extradited to the United States on January 19, 2017