In this
Spanish name , the first or paternal
surname is
Gómez and the second or maternal family name is
González .
Adrián Gómez González was a Mexican drug trafficker and a Sinaloa Cartel drug lord .[ 1]
Gómez worked as a lieutenant for Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo during the 1970s and 1980s; when Félix Gallardo was arrested in 1989, his old organization, the Guadalajara Cartel , broke up into two factions: the Tijuana Cartel led by his nephews, the Arellano Félix brothers, and the Sinaloa Cartel , run by former lieutenants Héctor Luis Palma Salazar , Adrián Gómez González, Ismael Zambada García and Joaquín Guzmán Loera (El Chapo ).[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] [ 4] By then, the four Sinaloa Cartel drug lords controlled the Mexican states of Sinaloa, Durango, Chihuahua, Sonora, Nuevo León, and Michoacán.[ 2] [ 5]
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