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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 ]
The Sinaloa Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Sinaloa, pronounced [ˈkaɾtel ðe sinaˈloa], CDS, after the native Sinaloa region), also known as the Guzmán-Loera Organization, the Federation, the Sinaloa Cartel, [4] [5] [6] or the Pacific Cartel, [7] is a large, drug trafficking organization transnational organized crime syndicate based in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, [8] that specializes in ...
Narcos is an American crime drama television series about the Colombian drug cartels and the DEA's efforts to shut them down. It was created by Chris Brancato, Carlo Bernard and Doug Miro, and produced by Gaumont International Television and distributed by Netflix. Its companion series Narcos: Mexico was released after the original series ended.
The Guadalajara Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Guadalajara), also known as The Federation (Spanish: La Federación), was a Mexican drug cartel which was formed in the late 1970s by Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, Rafael Caro Quintero, and Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo in order to ship cocaine and marijuana to the United States.
On 4 August 2020, Guadalupe Villarreal Gómez "N" and her partner were arrested in the municipality of Nuevo Laredo, the leader of a faction of the Northeast Cartel. She was assigned to various municipalities in both the south and north of the state in which she maintained relationships with criminal leaders such as the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas.
[clarification needed] According to Infobae, Iván Guzmán is a relative of trafficker Héctor Luis Palma Salazar (alias "El Güero" or "Whiteboy"), an associate of Chapo dating to their time in the Guadalajara Cartel. The Guadalajara Cartel is the organization Palma, Guzmán and Zambada García splintered to form the Sinaloa Cartel. [9]
La Línea ("The Line") is currently the leading faction of the Juárez Cartel originally designed to be one of the cartel's enforcer units set up by a number of former and active-duty policemen, heavily armed and extensively trained in urban warfare. [3]