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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 ...
Leo Silva, a former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent who worked in Mexico countering the Zetas, said Cardenas was directly to blame for the upturn in grisly violence in Mexico over the ...
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]
The San Fernando massacre was one of the most high-profile incidents attributed to the Zetas. It took place in Tamaulipas state in 2010, only 93 miles from the U.S. border. The Zetas killed 72 ...
A 2018 study found that the reduction in drugs from Colombia contributed to Mexican drug violence. The study estimated, "between 2006 and 2009 the decline in cocaine supply from Colombia could account for 10%–14% of the increase in violence in Mexico." [125]
Cardenas also founded what became the Zetas Cartel, an armed wing of the Gulf Cartel made up of former army special forces, known for extreme violence. The Zetas later branched off and for a time ...
The violence between the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas, their former armed wing, continued. [25] In 2010, Los Zetas broke apart from the Gulf Cartel and both organizations began to turn their weapons against each other. [26] The clash between these two groups first happened in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, and then expanded to Nuevo Laredo and Matamoros. [27]
A split in the Zetas could be encouraging for rival gangs. That in turn could have become a "major headache" for President Enrique Peña Nieto, who had vowed to reduce the violence that has killed more than 50,000 since 2006. If the Zetas break apart, drug violence in Mexico could increase, with over 10,000 cartel members fighting for control.