

In retaliation, Palma executed Gallardo's lawyer and Clavel's three children. Soon afterward, Clavel began working for the Tijuana Cartel. The two young children, Jesús (aged 5) and Nataly (aged 4), were taken to Venezuela and thrown off a bridge named 'Puente de la Concordia', located in the city of San Cristóbal, Táchira, about 40 kms from the border with Colombia. Upon his release, he discovered his wife, Guadalupe Leija Serrano, had run off with Clavel and taken her and Palma's two children.Ĭlavel forced Guadalupe to withdraw US$7 million from a bank account and later decapitated her and shipped her head back to Palma. In 1978, Palma was arrested in Arizona for drug trafficking and sentenced to eight years in a U.S. Palma, along with a Venezuelan trafficker named Rafael Enrique Clavel, the one-time boyfriend of Palma's sister Minerva Palma, began operating their own cartel.įirst arrest and family's murder Palma splintered from the group, which was handed down to Felix Gallardo's nephews in Tijuana, who later formed the Tijuana Cartel (also known as the Arellano Félix Organization). Following El Lobito's death, Palma contacted and created an alliance with Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán and Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada García of the Sinaloa Cartel.

He was associated with Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán and Ismael Zambada García.įollowing the loss of a large cocaine shipment which was blamed on El Chapo and Palma, in 1988 El Lobito Retamoza was killed but Palma spared. Palma rose up the ranks and, along with Abelardo "El Lobito" Retamoza Machado, eventually became a co-leader of the cartel. He began his life of crime as a car thief and eventually worked as a gunman for Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, under the umbrella of the Guadalajara Cartel. Jesús Héctor Luis Palma Salazar was born in Noria de Abajo, Mocorito, Sinaloa, on April 29, 1960. Palma is currently incarcerated at the Altiplano Prison, near Mexico City. He was then deported back to Mexico and charged with a double homicide for having murdered two Nayarit police officers back in 1995. Palma was arrested on June 23, 1995, and extradited to the United States where he served a jail sentence until June 2016.

After the brutal murder of his family ordered by his boss Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, Palma engaged in a string of vicious crimes to avenge his lost ones. Héctor Luis Palma Salazar (born April 29, 1960), commonly known as "El Güero Palma", is a Mexican former drug trafficker and leader of the Sinaloa Cartel alongside Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán and Ismael Zambada García.
