Who is Dámaso López Núñez?
Considered by the US government to be the most powerful drug dealer of all time, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, leader of the Sinaloa cartel, already has a successor. His name is Dámaso López Núñez, better known as “El Licenciado.”
Who was Pablo Dámaso and what did he do?
“Dámaso was responsible for co-ordinating with the Colombians the shipments of cocaine which arrived by boat and submarine from Colombia, and the boats that went from Mexico with the payments for cocaine received,” he said.
What happened to Dámaso López García?
His father Dámaso López García was appointed attorney general of Culiacán in 2007 by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional – PRI). López García’s death in September 2009 caused then-mayor Jesús Vizcarra, also of the PRI, to call for a minute’s silence in his honour.
How old was El Licenciado?
At the time, El Licenciado was 33 years old. He arrived along with a team of collaborators known as the Sinaloas: commanders Carlos Fernando Ochoa López, Jesús Vizcaíno Medina and Fidel Roberto García, as well as guards such as José de Jesús Carlos Cortes Ortiz, alias “El Pollo,” and José Barajas, alias “El Veneno.”