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Hector Luis Palma Salazar

Hector Luis "El Guero" Palma Salazar (born 25 December 1940) was the original co-leader of the Sinaloa Cartel alongside Joaquin Guzman Loera.

Biography[]

Hector Luis Palma Salazar was born in Mocorito, Sinaloa, Mexico on 25 December 1940, and he worked as a car thief and as a gunman for Guadalajara Cartel boss Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo. After the loss of a large cocaine shipment, Palma was spared, while his partner Eduardo Retamoza was killed. He decided to defect to Joaquin Guzman Loera's rival Sinaloa Cartel, and he became a co-leader alongside Guzman and Adrian Gomez Gonzalez. In 1989, during the Sinaloa Cartel's war with the Tijuana Cartel, the Tijuana Cartel sent Venezuelan drug trafficker Enrique Rafael Clavel Moreno to seduce and behead his wife Guadalupe Leija Serrano and kill his two young children (who he threw off a bridge in Venezuela) and send Palma a tape of the incident; this led to Palma demanding that the Arellano Felix brothers and their allies be killed. On 23 June 1995, Palma was arrested when his jet crash-landed en route to a wedding party, and he served 9 years in a maximum-security prison in the United States before being extradited to Mexico in 2016. He was then interned at the Altiplano Prison for killing two police officers.


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