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Mexican politician
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Leopoldo Sánchez Celis
Governor of Sinaloa
In office
1 January 1963 – 31 December 1968
Preceded byGabriel Leyva Velázquez
Succeeded byAlfredo Valdés Montoya
Personal details
Born(1916-02-14)14 February 1916
Cosalá, Sinaloa
Died7 August 1989(1989-08-07) (aged 73)
Cuernavaca, Morelos
NationalityMexican
Political partyInstitutional Revolutionary Party
ProfessionPolitician

Leopoldo Sánchez Celis (February 14, 1916 – August 7, 1989) was a Mexican politician who was governor of Sinaloa from 1963 to 1968.

He belonged to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), having been elected as a Senator for that party representing Sinaloa.

One of his personal bodyguards was the drug trafficker and ex-police officer Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, with whom he maintained an extensive friendship, so much so that Félix Gallardo was the best man at the wedding of one of his sons, Rodolfo Sánchez Duarte, in 1983.

He was tortured and murdered, allegedly on the orders of Félix Gallardo after some fight between Sánchez Celis and him, or because of the alleged links of the governor with drug trafficking.

References

  1. "Leopoldo Sánchez Celis". Archived from the original on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2015-12-04.
  2. "SÁNCHEZ CELIS, LEOPOLDO" (PDF) (in Spanish). Enciclopedia de Mexico. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 December 2014. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
  3. https://www.infobae.com/america/mexico/2019/12/04/complicidad-entre-el-poder-y-el-narco-asi-empezo-la-historia-hace-41-anos/


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