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Although he still has eight years to complete his sentence, Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo’s days in jail seem to be numbered. One-eyed, half-deaf, on his way to 77, the former leader of the Guadalajara cartel is gaining points to finish his sentence at home. This week, the general director of Social Reintegration of the State of Jalisco, José Antonio Pérez Juárez, pointed out that “irreversible diseases, such as the loss of an eye, the loss of an ear, gastrointestinal aspects… In strict adherence to the law, he should to be in a home shelter “.
Pérez Juárez, who this week presented his annual activities report, added that it is up to them, the unit he directs, to decide whether their behavior and risk is adequate for their home confinement: “The truth is appropriate, because it is a person who in all his internment never had a fight ”. The official considered “that he is not a person who consumes drugs, much less alcohol, he is a person who has conducted himself with respect inside the center and we believe that due to his age and illness, he has every right to have a home confinement ”.
The official’s words could influence the fate of the prisoner, who meets part of the requirements set by the federal government to finish his sentence at home, but not all. In the middle of the year, the Executive, led by Andrés Manuel López Obrador, proposed granting an amnesty to inmates over 75 years old, or who suffer from chronic diseases and are over 65 years old. The president said that the decree would apply in cases of non-serious crimes of the common jurisdiction. It remains to be seen if Félix Gallardo, a candidate due to age and illness, could pass the gravity cut.
Imprisoned since 1989, the drug trafficker was sentenced to 40 years for the 1985 murder of Enrique Camarena, an agent in Mexico of the United States anti-drug agency, DEA for its acronym in English. According to the official version, Gallardo and his henchmen, including Rafael Caro Quintero and Ernesto Fonseca, Don Neto, the core of the Guadalajara cartel, tortured and killed Camarena, after he discovered a huge marijuana plantation belonging to the organization. criminal.
In an interview with Telemundo a few months ago, Gallardo denied having participated in the murder of the anti-narcotics agent. “It is a very unfortunate subject … I do not know why it is related to me, because I did not know him,” he said. “I have no regrets. I did not participate in such an event, “he added. In a similar logic, Gallardo denied even the existence of the Guadalajara cartel or having ever participated in the drug trafficking business. “There never were cartels in Guadalajara. We led a family life. I brought my children to school (…) I dedicated myself to agriculture and livestock since I was a child. He also had some pharmacies and two old hotels ”.
Tolerated for years by political power, rooted in the corrupt circuits of the State security forces and bodies, the Guadalajara cartel elevated drug trafficking to international business in the late 1970s and early 1970s. It is not that drugs did not arrive in the United States before, it is that it was with them, traffickers from Sinaloa living in Guadalajara, that the business took off.
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