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I don't think including Felipe Calderon was a wise choice, his 'war on drugs' is seen as him just wanting to take out the other cartels and replacing them with his own.

Did the cartels take him out? I doubt it. Its an open secret in Mexico that these people have to be worried about the police and goverment more than cartels at least until Felipe Calderon changed things.

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Our country just came out from a brutal war on drugs, nothing good came out of it but only low level street soldiers are being killed. Some masterminds came from the government or cops.

Yep.

Miguel Felix Gallardo was a Federal Police officer in Mexico

...as well as the godfather of the son of the (1963 to 1968) Governor of the Mexican state of Sinaloa.

He is considered one of if not the original cartel drug lord of Mexican cartels, as a/the founder of the Sinaloa cartel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_%C3%81ngel_F%C3%A9lix_G...

Or how about the head of the military

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/world/americas/mexico-sal...

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