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The Zetas killed 72 migrants from Central and South America who were en route to the United States. ... This tactical strategy is used by the two most powerful cartels in Mexico, the Sinaloa ...
The 2011 San Fernando massacre, also known as the second massacre of San Fernando, [1] was the mass murder of 193 people by Los Zetas drug cartel at La Joya ranch in the municipality of San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, in March 2011. [2]
Most of the 2011–2012 massacres were committed by the rival Sinaloa and Los Zetas cartels throughout Mexico. [2] The killings were described as "the latest salvo in a gruesome game of tit-for-tat in fighting" by Mexican drug cartels. [3]
By Los Zetas: San Fernando massacre: April 6, 2011 San Fernando, Tamaulipas 193 Gruesome murder by Los Zetas of 193 travelers using barbaric, gladiator style tactics. Ruiz massacre: May 25, 2011 Ruiz, Nayarit: 29 3 wounded. One of the most violent clashes between criminal organizations in Mexico between Sinaloa Cartel and Los Zetas. [106] [107 ...
In Sinaloa in northwestern Mexico, some residents say drug-fueled violence has gotten so bad that they would welcome U.S. President Donald Trump's proposal for the U.S. military to go after cartels.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -The U.S. government deported drug lord Osiel Cardenas on Monday, transferring custody of the ex-Gulf Cartel chief known for hyper-violent tactics to Mexican authorities at ...
Los Zetas was named after its first commander, Arturo Guzmán Decena, whose Federal Judicial Police radio code was "Z1", [34] a code given to high-ranking officers. [35] [36] [37] The radio code for commanding Federal Judicial Police officers in Mexico was "Y" and those officers are nicknamed "Yankees", while Federal Judicial Police in charge of a city was codenamed "Z"; thus they were ...
As Reuters reported, by 2012 the Zetas had grown to a force of 10,000 gunmen that took up a dominant position in the cross-border drug trade after committing some of the worst atrocities in the ...