The departure of drug trafficker Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo from the prison of Puente Grande, Jalisco, to serve the house arrest that was granted to him was postponed on Thursday night and will be until September 23 when it is carried out.
José Antonio Pérez Juárez, Jalisco’s director general of Prevention and Social Reintegration, said the transfer was postponed because the National Guard said there were no conditions for the transfer to the home of the so-called “Chief of Chiefs,” reported Milenio.
A judge authorized Félix Gallardo to serve the remaining three years of his sentence in a private home due to his age – 76 years – and the health problems he suffers, since he was diagnosed with 22 diseases, including facial cancer and pneumonia.
The lawyer of the founders of the Guadalajara cartel, María Teresa Vallejo Pérez, said that the Secretary of Security, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, was the one who argued that the National Guard did not have enough personnel to transfer her client to a private home.
So I hold “all of Mexico” responsible if Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo dies, said the newspaper Reforma.
“It is a political issue where they create, where they build the image of a person, you have to kill him to offer him as a sacrifice,” said the lawyer.
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During this Thursday, a hearing was held to test him on the electronic bracelet that the drug trafficker will wear and that will keep him under surveillance; however, it was determined that this will be repeated on September 23 at 6:00 p.m.
On Thursday, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador ordered medical attention to Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, while he is in prison due to his state of health.
Drug trafficker Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo is considered one of the most powerful criminals in Mexico in the 80s; he has been in prison since 1989, in Puente Grande prison.
He was arrested and later convicted of the murder of Enrique Camarena, a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent who investigated the operations of the defunct Guadalajara Cartel.
Felix Gallardo was nicknamed “the Chief of Chiefs” for the power attributed to him in the drug trade from Mexico to the United States in the last decades of the last century.
With information from Reforma and Milenio.
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