The mayor of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán’s hometown is constructing a brand new museum that may have exhibitions that may pay homage to a few of Mexico’s most infamous drug traffickers.
Badiraguato Mayor José Luis López Elenes stated that whereas the purpose of the museum is to spark curiosity the western Mexican metropolis’s tourism business, it was unimaginable to exclude the troubled previous of El Chapo and his previous associates.
‘We can not deny our historical past,’ López Elenes instructed native outlet Noticiero Altavoz on Tuesday. ‘We’ve got to acknowledge it and we’re going to work on that foundation. It’s doable that we will have drug trafficking museum.’
Groundbreaking for the brand new museum, which is a part of an financial redevelopment plan, came about in Might.
The Mexican metropolis of Badiraguato will likely be opening up a brand new museum that may host reveals devoted to the historical past of drug trafficking, together with infamous cartel bosses Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, Rafael Caro Quintero, Juan José ‘El Azul’ Esparragoza and Joaquín ‘El Chapo, Guzmán
Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán is amongst numerous drug traffickers who had been born within the western Mexico metropolis of Badiraguato
Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo (pictured in a 2021 interview with Telemundo) was the founding father of the Guadalajara Cartel and linked to the 1985 kidnapping and killing of DEA agent Kiki Camarena
Badiraguato Mayor José Luis López Elenes stated his metropolis has to come back to phrases with the troubled previous that has marked it as he met with the press Tuesday and revealed plans of a brand new museum that may have reveals that may inform the story of the drug commerce
The Sinaloa state authorities put aside round $730,000 to fund the price of the development of the museum, which is ready to be accomplished in December.
The constructing options columns on the entrance and is situated on prime of a hill. It will likely be 116 sq. meters and the ceiling is 22 ft excessive.
Native press has reported that the museum will exhibit images and different objects of Badiraguato native sons who helped formed the transnational drug trafficking enterprise.
Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, Rafael Caro Quintero and Juan José ‘El Azul’ Esparragoza all performed a pivotal position within the creation of the Guadalajara Cartel within the Nineteen Seventies.
Gallardo, who is named ‘The Boss of the Bosses’ and ‘The Godfather,’ was jailed for the 1985 kidnapping and killing of DEA agent Kiki Camarena.
A court docket sentenced the 76-year-old to 40 years in jail in 1989 for crimes that included racketeering, firearms possession and bribery. Nevertheless, it wasn’t till 2017 {that a} court docket discovered him responsible of the particular agent’s homicide and handed him a 37-year sentence.
In September, a Mexican federal court docket accredited Gallardo’s remaining sentence to be served within the confines of his residence due to his poor well being.
Juan José ‘El Azul’ Esparragoza (pictured) was one of many leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel till his dying of an alleged coronary heart assault in 2014
Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero (heart) was arrested by safety forces in Sinaloa on July 15. He now awaits extradition to the US, the place he’s accused of killing DEA agent Kiki Camarena in 1985
Caro Quintero was apprehended in July after nearly 10 years on the run. The 69-year-old can be accused with the killing and kidnaping of Camarena.
He was launched from in August 2013, after 28 years in jail, when a court docket overturned his 40-year sentence Camarena’s homicide, which marked a low level in US-Mexico relations. The Supreme Courtroom upheld the sentence 5 days following his launch.
El Chapo labored underneath the Guadalajara drug trafficking community earlier than he ventured off with El Azul to type the Sinaloa Cartel alongside Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada.
El Chapo is presently serving a life sentence in the US and El Azul died of an alleged a coronary heart assault following after surviving 2014 automotive crash.
Mayor López Elenes hopes the museum will assist ‘overcome this stigma of drug trafficking by pushing financial improvement to favor the municipality.’