A veteran Mexican drug lord convicted of the homicide of a U.S. spy has been granted home arrest because of his deteriorating well being, authorities stated Tuesday. Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo was thought-about Mexico's strongest drug trafficker when he was arrested for the homicide of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena in 1985.
Referred to as the "Boss of Bosses" ("Jefe de jefes"), the 76-year-old founding father of the Guadalajara cartel has been in jail since 1989 and is blind in a single eye and deaf in a single ear.
"He wants therapy that can't be given in jail as a result of he has many ailments," Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador informed reporters.
"He takes a variety of medication. He is in a fragile state of affairs," Lopez Obrador added.
In 2021, Lopez Obrador publicly thanked Felix Gallardo for his "good needs," after the growing older drug kingpin stated in an interview that the leftist chief was slowly resolving the violence gripping Mexico.
Felix Gallardo has served 33 years of a 40-year jail sentence.
His worsening situation prompted the Nationwide Human Rights Fee to intercede in his case.
A decide granted Felix Gallardo home arrest with a monitoring system on the grounds that he's at risk of dying earlier than finishing his sentence, an official within the western state of Jalisco, Jose Antonio Perez, informed AFP.
The legal professional common's workplace has challenged the choice, he stated.
Felix Gallardo's group is taken into account the forefather of contemporary Mexican drug cartels.
It was one of many first cartels to ascertain contacts with Colombian drug lords, working to move cocaine up from the South American nation to america.
Final month, the pinnacle of the Drug Enforcement Administration informed CBS Information that two Mexican cartels -- Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Era Cartel -- are behind the inflow of fentanyl within the U.S. that is killing tens of 1000's of Individuals.
"These cartels are appearing with calculated, deliberate treachery to get fentanyl to america and to get individuals to purchase it by means of pretend drugs, by hiding it in different medicine, any implies that they'll take so as to drive dependancy and to become profitable," DEA Administrator Anne Milgram stated.
The Division of Justice considers the Jalisco cartel to be "one of many 5 most harmful transnational prison organizations on the planet." The cartel's chief, Nemesio Oseguera, "El Mencho," is among the many most sought by Mexican and U.S. authorities.