Leopoldo Sánchez Celis (February 14, 1916 – August 7, 1989) was a Mexican politician who was governor of

Sinaloa Sinaloa (), officially the (), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, compose the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 18 municipalities, and its capital city is Culiacán Rosales. It is located in northwest Mexic ...

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 Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo (born January 8, 1946), commonly referred to by his aliases ''El Jefe de Jefes'' ('The Boss of Bosses') and ''El Padrino'' ('The Godfather'), is a convicted Mexican drug kingpin who was one of the founders of the ...

, with whom he maintained an extensive friendship,https://www.infobae.com/america/mexico/2019/12/04/complicidad-entre-el-poder-y-el-narco-asi-empezo-la-historia-hace-41-anos/ 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.

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1916 births 1989 deaths Governors of Sinaloa 20th-century Mexican politicians People from Cosalá Municipality Politicians from Sinaloa {{Mexico-politician-stub