Ismael Marino Ortega Galicia, who was the former escort of the former governor of Tamaulipas, Eugenio Hernández Flores and also identified by the US authorities as hitman of the Gulf Cartel, was removed from the black list of the Treasury Department of the neighboring country to the north.
The former escort and hit man was arrested by Navy agents on July 2, 2010 in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, just three months after being identified by the USA as kingpin of drug trafficking along with 54 other leaders from the Gulf and Los Zetas.
The authorities of the border state of Tamaulipas denied knowledge of the criminal history of Ortega Galiciaarguing that he had served between 1991 and 1999 as a member of the Mexican Army, moving from there to the Federal Investigation Agency and then to the State Police, serving as an escort for former Governor Hernández Flores.
Despite the denial of the local authorities, both the extinct PGR and the US government placed it as a high risk operation and important piece in the organizational chart of the Gulf Cartel.
His name appeared since 2003 on the list of police officers linked to the armed wing of the Gulf: the Zetas.
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