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Hector 'El Guero'
Palma was a former partner of Guzman, the head of the powerful
Sinaloa cartel who is now fighting extradition to the United
States from a Mexican prison.
Palma was rearrested by officials on his repatriation to Mexico
for his "probable responsibility in two homicides" that occurred
in the small Pacific state of Nayarit, according to a statement
from the attorney general's office. Further details were not
immediately available.
He was transferred to the Altiplano maximum security prison,
from which his fellow drug lord Guzman managed to escape last
year before being recaptured.
In the absence of Guzman, Mexican officials appear to be
increasingly wary of Palma, given his ties to the Sinaloa
cartel.
Palma, who first served five years in Mexico's maximum-security
Puente Grande prison, was extradited to the United States in
2007. He played a key role in the cartel, which became famous in
the 1980s for trafficking cocaine from Colombia in association
with the late Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
Palma served most of a 16-year sentence, which was reduced
because of good behavior, said Kristi Rodriguez, from the U.S.
penitentiary in Atwater, California.
(Reporting by Anahi Rama, Lizbeth Diaz and Natalie Schachar;
Editing by Simon Gardner, Peter Cooney and Michael Perry)
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