Via Across the Border, a look at the Internet homepage of Miguel Felix Gallardo, the man credited with laying the roots of Tijuana's Arellano Felix cartel -- only the original gangsters of Mexican drug trafficking. Brazen, but, why not?
Since the posting by Anna Cearley, managers of miguelfelixgallardo.com have removed from the site homepage Felix Gallardo's working biography, a forum where he answered questions from visitors, and galleries of photos of his palatial hacienda in Culiacán (those pages though are still easy to find on the Nets). The message on the main page now reads: "Thank you to all those who take interest and worry in me, due to health problems I will no longer be able to answer questions."
Interesting: Miguel Felix Gallardo's Wiki entry as well as comments on Across the Border insist the still-jailed kingpin has no blood relation to the modern Arellano Felix brothers, who are said to be his nephews. Meanwhile, El Universal reports that the Tijuana cartel is readjusting after some recent high-profile arrests.
* Check out once more the San Diego Reader's exhaustive list of major narco-related violent incidents in Tijuana over the years. The Arellano Felix name comes up many, many times.
** BOOK NOTE: I link above to "El Cartel" by the late Jesus Blancornelas, a comprehensive history of the Tijuana cartel by the trailblazing journalist from TJ's muckracking institution, Zeta. Just came across it again in my too tall to-read pile.