Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo
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Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo (born January 8, 1946) is a Mexican drug lord known as "El Padrino," the cocaine czar of Mexico, and premier leader of the Guadalajara Cartel of the 1980s.
Gallardo was arrested in 1989. While incarcerated, he remained one of Mexico's major traffickers, maintaining his organization via mobile phone until he was transferred to a new maximum security prison in the 1990's. At that point, his old organization broke up into two factions: the Tijuana Cartel led by his nephews, the Arellano-Felix brothers, and the Sinaloa Cartel run by former lieutenants Luis Hector Palma Salazar and Joaquin Guzman Loera.
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