Cartels of Mexico United against the Zetas
Cartels of Mexico
One of Mexico's most violent drug Cartels "The Gulf Cartel" has turned against its former armed wing in the latest outburst of killings on the U.S. border to test President Felipe Calderon's overstretched army crackdown.
Banners were hung across Reynosa on Wednesday telling the army to leave and vowing the Gulf cartel and its allies will defeat the Zetas.
"You fight poison with the same poison," read the banners, signed "Cartels of Mexico United against the Zetas."
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The Zetas Vs La Familia Michoacana
The Zetas, once the armed wing of the Gulf cartel, have increasingly branched out on their own and are seen by Mexican authorities as one of the country's most brutal crime groups, known for gruesome tactics such as beheading victims.
In addition to drug trafficking, authorities say, the Zetas are involved in extortion, kidnapping, producing pirated CDs and DVDs, sales of alcohol and migrant smuggling.-
The gang has been locked in a bloody turf war
in western Mexico with a gang known as La Fa...
The rise and fall of “The Gulf Cartel”
It was 1982, and William Hoffman, an American drug runner later tucked into the witness-protection program, was busy using rental cars to ferry 25-pound loads of Mexican marijuana from Brownsville to Houston.
Hoffman, according to records, would drive to a house on Houston's Wallisville Road, where guys he knew only as “Guero” and “Gringo” would unload the pot.
But small-time was about to become big-time.
Through interviews, documents, and court testimony, the Houston Chronicle ha...
Shootouts With Zetas drug traffickers in northern Mexico
Almanza Morales, killed in the attack, was accused of working for the Zetas, drug traffickers who also serve as enforcers for the Mexican Gulf cartel, and of killing army Brig. Gen. Juan Arturo Esparza and his four bodyguards in a November attack.
Esparza was killed shortly after he was named police chief in the Monterrey suburb of Garcia. Five Garcia police officers were among 10 people arrested in Esparza's killing.
Nuevo Leon state Attorney General Alejandra Garza y Garza said in Mon...
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