Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo

Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo (born January 8, 1946) is a convicted Mexican drug lord known as "El Padrino" (Spanish: "The Godfather") who in the 1980s formed the Guadalajara Cartel and became the first drug czar in Mexico to control all illegal drug traffic in Mexico and the corridors along the Mexico-U.S.A. border. Born in the outskirts of Culiacán, Sinaloa, Félix Gallardo trained as a Mexican Judicial Federal Police agent and then worked as bodyguard for then governor of Sinaloa state Leopoldo Sanchez Celis. He became the illegal drug trade czar in Mexico, earning him the nickname of "The Godfather". He started off by smuggling marijuana and opium into the U.S.A., and was the first Mexican drug capo to link up with Colombia's cocaine...