Héctor “El Güero” Palma was released from prison after being acquitted: he was immediately re-apprehended

The famous drug dealer Héctor “El Güero” Palma Salazar He left early Tuesday morning from the Altiplano prison, located in the state of Mexico, after being acquitted by a judge. of organized crime crime on May 1.

On May 1, the Ministry of External Relations (SRE) officially consulted the Government of the United States of America, through its embassy in Mexico, to find out whether the The Ministry of Justice of this country has an extradition request against the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel.

“Once the aforementioned consultations have been approved, we will proceed accordingly in accordance with what is prescribed in the judge’s sentence”, reads the SRE instruction.

Palma Salazar left prison amid strong security arrangements in which elements of the National Guard, the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) and SEIDO intervened.

However, due to a possible new arrest warrant, he has been detained again and will be transferred to Mexico City, although details were not given.

Héctor Palma Salazar was born in La Noria de Abajo, in the municipality of Mocorito, Sinaloa, and only studied primary school due to the poverty of his family. Crime quickly entered his life and in his teens he already stole cars. Caught the attention of Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, the largest cocaine and marijuana drug trafficker in Mexico, also known as Boss boss O the Godfather, who hired him as a hitman in the 1970s and then tasked him with smuggling cocaine into Sonora.

At the time, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Chapo, I also worked for Felix Gallardo in the Guadalajara cartel, so became a close friend of the Guero, accused of keeping a shipment of drugs, for which his boss was quick to take revenge.

Towards the end of the eighties, the Guero and the Chapo Guzmán has made giant strides towards leadership in the world of drug trafficking with the Sinaloa Cartel, but soon came the worst blow for Palma Salazar.

the Godfather, allegedly ordered the murder of the son and wife of Guero Palma, to whom they sent the head of his beloved. The murder, at the hands of the leader of Colombian narco Rafael Clavel Moreno, of the group Félix Gallardo, has removed Palma Salazar from anonymity, as an unprecedented battle has been created between the criminals.

In tribute, the Guero Palma built a mausoleum for his family with an estimated value of 420,000 USD, in the Pantheon Jardines del Humaya, in Culiacán, Sinaloa. On the ceiling there is a painting of his wife and children. And as revenge, he ordered the murder of nine friends and relatives of Felix Gallardo. Some of the bodies suffered multiple blows, fractured skulls, and exploded viscera.

At 58, the friend of Chapo Guzmán could be released if he has no other investigations than those carried out by the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office in the criminal case 6/2018-IX. If he has already been tried in the United States and the Mexican government itself does not have an arrest warrant for extradition purposes, which it would have been notified and would not verify abroad, leaving the Altiplano would seem a matter of procedure. Subject to inquiries in any entity in Mexico.

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