The Guadalajara Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Guadalajara), also known as The Federation (Spanish: La Federación), was a Mexican drug cartel which was formed in the late 1970s by Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, Rafael Caro Quintero, and Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo in order to ship cocaine and marijuana to the United States.

Mar 15, 2021 · GUADALAJARA, Mexico — Early one morning in May 2019, a man stumbled naked through a middle-class neighborhood in central Guadalajara before collapsing on a street corner. He bore obvious...

Aug 19, 2021 · Recently, the popular Netflix series chronicled his life as the co-founder of the Guadalajara cartel, as the first drug trafficker to create a bridge between South America and the United...

The Guadalajara Cartel suffered a major blow in 1985 when the group's co-founder Rafael Caro Quintero was captured, and later convicted, for the murder of DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena. [154] [155] Félix Gallardo then kept a low profile and …

Mar 28, 2022 · After he helped found the Guadalajara Cartel, Mexican drug lord Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo became infamous as "El Padrino" and "El Jefe de Jefes." "The Godfather" of Mexican cartels owned 200 ranches and a hotel when he was apprehended in 1989.

In 1977, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Mexican army began a bilateral antidrug campaign called “Operación Cóndor.” Although the operation was unsuccessful in slowing the spread of the drug trade, it did push the Felix Gallardo organization from Sinaloa into Guadalajara.

In Sinaloa cartel …can be traced to the Guadalajara cartel, which was one of Mexico’s largest crime organizations in the early 1980s. However, after the cartel was involved in the 1985 torture and murder of a U.S. drug enforcement agent, U.S. and Mexican forces cracked down on the syndicate, and by the end…

This contention is illustrated using the example of the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel in Mexico, one of the largest drug suppliers to the North American market in the late 1970's and 1980's. The cartel's success is explained by its connections to the Mexican intelligence agency and the CIA.

Feb 7, 2012 · Three men were identified as having ordered the kidnap and murder: the heads of the then all-powerful Guadalajara cartel. Their names are forever synonymous with drug trafficking in Mexico:...

Aug 24, 2017 · Legendary former head of the now-defunct Guadalajara cartel, Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, is sentenced to 37 years for the 1985 murder of DEA Agent Enrique Camarena.