The atrocious revenge of “El Güero” Palma: how he punished the hitman who killed his wife and children

On May 1, Héctor Luis Palma Salazar, The Güero, he was acquitted of drug trafficking crimes and his immediate release ordered.

However, he was not always so lucky. One of the most tragic of his life was marked by the murder of his wife, Guadalupe Laija, and his two sons: Héctor, five, and Nataly, four.

Rafael Clavel Moreno He was a hit man Venezuela who worked for The Güero. He appeared in the midst of the conflict between Palma Salazar and Joaquín El Chapo Guzman Loera against Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo and the Arellano Félix.

When The Güero Palma held one of the most senior positions in the leadership of the Sinaloa cartel, in the 80s and 90s, they killed his wife and two children.

The former head of the Guadalajara cartel, the Boss boss, Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, and his cousins ​​Arellano Félix, broke the unwritten rule of drug traffickers: a non-aggression pact between relatives in apparent revenge for the betrayal of who started out as a hitman.

Félix Gallardo and the Arellanos allegedly orchestrated the massacre and ordered the assassination of Héctor, Nataly and Laija. A The Güero they sent you the head of your spouse.

The mission was carried out by the Venezuelan, a low-ranking hitman who managed to infiltrate as a member of the Sinaloa cartel, while Palma Salazar was absent, for later to fall in love and convince Guadalupe to run away together.

About a week later, the tragedy ended in Palma. Rafael sent him a video in Sinaloan where he taught him how he had thrown his two sons, Nataly and Héctor, from Concordia Bridge in Venezuela.

The revenge of The Güero it was sinister and brutal. With help from your partner and friend El Chapo Guzmán, murdered some of the involved in the massacre and their friends and family.

Clavel Moreno was the first victim and Palma Salazar he planned it from prison. The hitman was arrested in Venezuela by the authorities and imprisoned for the crime of murdering two minors, according to journalist Raúl Monge de Treat.

He was murdered in prison under “strange” circumstances: the person in charge has never been arrested. Time later, Clavel Moreno’s three children were wiped out one after the other.

Too a group of Venezuelans with whom the hitman was in contact have died in Mexico.

But the vendetta it didn’t stop there: in 1992, nine men, including lawyers and a half-brother of Boss boss, They were found shot and showing signs of torture on a road in Iguala, in the state of Guerrero. The multihomicide has been attributed to El Chapo and to Guero.

the testimony of Reynaldo Zambada During the trial of Joaquín Guzmán Loera in the United States, he revealed that his brother, Ismael May Zambada, helped them plan the filming inside Christine nightclub, where a command tried, without success, assassinate the Arellano Félix in Puerto Vallarta.

The Güero builds a mausoleum for his family with an estimated value of $ 420,000 in the Pantheon Jardines del Humaya, in Culiacán, Sinaloa. On the ceiling there is a painting of his wife and children.

In February of this year, the Attorney General’s Office (FGJ) confirmed the discovery of the bodies of María Jimena Palma Romero and Cintia Mercedes Romero Verdugo, mother and daughter, who were also sister-in-law and niece of Guero Palma.

The two women reported disappearances dating from December 30, 2020. According to investigations, they were abducted by four people in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora.

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