The first of the Mexican drug traffickers, the “boss of the bosses” Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, in prison since 1989, will benefit from a sentence modification and will be placed under house arrest, Mexican authorities indicated Tuesday. 76 years old, sick, he is serving a sentence of 40 years in prison.
Miguel Angel Félix Gallardo founded the Guadalajara Cartel in the late 1970s, the first major organized crime organization to export marijuana and later cocaine to the United States.
old and sick
Before the press, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador declared himself “convinced that he needed a treatment that is not available in prison, because it deals with many diseases.”
Indeed, the “boss of bosses” has nothing to do with the handsome dark-skinned Diego Luna plays in the series. drug dealers mexico on Netflix.
Miguel Angel Félix Gallardo lost an eye and the hearing in one ear, and his general state of health worsened, to the point that the National Human Rights Commission had taken legal action to adjust his sentence.
The latter had organized the Guadalajara Cartel with Rafael Caro Quintero, one of the ten most wanted fugitives by the US FBI, arrested on July 15 in Mexico.
The United States requested his extradition, but a Mexican judge blocked the US request based on a defense appeal. Detained in 1985, Caro Quintero was released in 2013 by formal default.
Source: BFM TV
