Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, architect of Mexico’s drug trade, dies aged 80

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Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, a founder of Mexico’s Guadalajara cartel known as the “boss of bosses”, died in hospital on Sunday aged 80 after suffering multiple organ failure, Jalisco state’s security ministry said. Imprisoned since 1989, he had been transferred from prison to the hospital two days before his death.

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