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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 ...
While it initially trained with Los Zetas, [23] in 2006 the group splintered off into an independent drug trafficking operation. La Familia has a strong rivalry with both Los Zetas and the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel, but strong ties with the Sinaloa Cartel of Joaquin Guzman. La Familia Michoacana was one of the strongest and fastest growing cartels ...
Although the main line of investigation points towards drug trafficking, specifically the probable responsibility of the criminal organization "La Familia" that operates mainly in the state of Michoacán, it has distanced itself from the events by placing banners in various points of the capital Morelia.7 Likewise, Los Zetas, another criminal organization and armed wing of the Gulf Cartel ...
The founder of the feared Los Zetas drugs cartel has been deported to Mexico after serving a lengthy jail sentence in the United States. Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, 57, led Los Zetas until 2003 ...
Cárteles Unidos (English: United Cartels), also known as La Resistencia (English: The Resistance) is a Mexican criminal enforcer squad composed of well-trained gunmen from the Sinaloa Cartel, Gulf Cartel, La Familia Michoacana, and Knights Templar Cartel originally formed to expel the Los Zetas Cartel from the states of Michoacán and Jalisco.
The war started after in 2010 when the Los Zetas-La Familia Michoacana war ended with the expulsions or executions of Los Zetas operatives in the states of Jalisco and Michoacán.The newly formed Sinaloa Cartel enforcer group Los Matazetas (Later called Jalisco New Generation Cartel) declared war on the Knights Of Templar Cartel in Michoacán ...
At first this new criminal group had the support of civil society, believing their promises of protection from Los Zetas, but soon began to commit the same atrocities committed by La Familia Michoacana and Los Zetas: they began to extort, kidnap, murder and rape civilians, leading to a situation of semi slavery. [3]
[4] [5] In 2000, Rosales Mendoza united with the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas to thwart the Milenio Cartel, causing a wave of violence in western Mexico that lasted until the year 2003. [5] He was arrested twice, on 24 October 2004, [6] and on 5 August 2014, and set free in late 2014. He was found dead in a parking lot on 28 December 2015.