The true story of Governor Celis in the series Narcos México

One of the characters closest to Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo (Diego Luna) in the series Narcos Mexicois he Governor Celisinterpreted by Rodrigo Murray.

In the Netflix production we can see that they have a strong friendship, which although they present it to us with some exaggerations, we know that the bond was real.

Before becoming a drug lord in the early 1970s, Felix Gallardo He worked as a judicial police officer in Sinaloa and as a personal escort for the governor of the State. Leopoldo Sánchez Celis between 1965 and 1968.

In that last position, his main function was to take care of the official’s children, which led to a good friendship between Gallardo and Celis, so when he formed his empire in the world of drug trafficking, the governor continued to support him.

Their relationship was so close that the governor was godfather at Gallardo’s wedding with María Elvira Murillo, and they in turn were godfathers at the wedding of Rodolfo Sánchez Duarte, the official’s son.

Celis was the intermediary for ‘The boss of bosses’ to ally himself with other governors and allow the passage of drugs.

That ‘friendship’ ended very badly.

After Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo was imprisoned in the South Prison for the death of the DEA agent, Kiki CamarenaRodolfo planned to visit him in the CDMX prison, however, immediately upon arriving in the capital he was intercepted by a group of men, who kidnapped and tortured him.

Two days later, on Thursday, November 22, the body of Sánchez Duarte and that of one of his friends was found with the coup de grace in an amphitheater in Ecatepec, while that of his father, Leopoldo Sánchez Celisit is only known that he died in Cuernavaca in 1989.