 Thousands of farmers worked the fields at Rancho Buffalo, and the annual production was later valued at 8 billion.All of this took place with the knowledge of local police, politicians, and the military.Camarena was also beginning to expose the connections among drug traffickers, Mexican law enforcement, and high-ranking government officials within the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), which Félix Gallardo considered to be a major threat to the Guadalajara cartel's operations throughout Mexico.