A judge orders a repeat of the process that keeps 'Güero Palma', former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, imprisoned

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A judge orders a repeat of the process that keeps 'Güero Palma', former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, imprisoned

Héctor Luis Palma Salazar, El Güero Palma, founding father of the Sinaloa Cartel, who led the most powerful drug trafficking organization in Mexico in the nineties hand in hand with Joaquín Loera El Chapo Guzmán, returns to the front pages for a judicial soap opera that covers much of the last decade. Conrado Alcalá Romo, a district judge in Zapopan, Jalisco, has granted an amparo to the drug trafficker who annuls the old drug lord's formal arre…