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    The Guadalajara Cartel was a Mexican drug cartel which was formed in the 1980s. After the arrest of Rafael Caro Quintero and Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, Felix Gallardo kept a low profile. He decided to divide up the trade he controlled as it would be more efficient and less likely to be brought down in one law enforcement swoop.

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    Guadalajara Cartel

    The Guadalajara Cartel was a Mexican drug cartel which was formed in the 1980s by Rafael Caro
    Quintero, Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo and Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo in order to
    ship heroinand marijuana to the United States. Among the first of the Mexican drug trafficking groups
    to work with the Colombian cocaine mafias, the Guadalajara cartel prospered from the cocainetrade.

    After the arrest of Rafael Caro Quintero and Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, Félix Gallardo kept a low
    profile and in 1987 he moved with his family Guadalajara city. "The Godfather" then decided to divide
    up the trade he controlled as it would be more efficient and less likely to be brought down in one law
    enforcement swoop.[1] In a way, he was privatizing the Mexican drug business while sending it back
    underground, to be run by bosses who were less well known or not yet known by the DEA. Félix
    Gallardo "The Godfather" convened the nation's top drug narcos at a house in the resort of Acapulco
    where he designated the plazas or territories. The Tijuana route would go to the Arellano Felix
    brothers. The Ciudad Juárez route would go to the Carrillo Fuentes family.Miguel Caro
    Quintero would run the Sonora corridor. The control of the Matamoros, Tamaulipascorridor - then
    becoming the Gulf Cartel- would be left undisturbed to Juan García Abrego. Meanwhile, Joaquín
    Guzmán Loera and Ismael Zambada García would take over Pacific coast operations, becoming
    the Sinaloa Cartel. Guzmán and Zambada brought veteran Héctor Luis Palma Salazar back into the
    fold. Félix Gallardo still planned to oversee national operations, he had the contacts so he was still the
    top man, but he would no longer control all details of the business; he was arrested on April 8, 1989.[2]

    According to Peter Dale Scott, the Guadalajara Cartel, Mexico's most powerful drug-trafficking
    network in the early 1980s, prospered largely because it enjoyed the protection of the Dirección
    Federal de Seguridad, under its chief Miguel Nassar Haro, a CIA asset."

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