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Rogelio González Pizaña, also known as Z-2 or El Kelin, [2] was born in Mexico on 1 March 1974. [3] In the late 1990s, the Gulf Cartel leader Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, fearing his rivals, decided to form an elite armed squadron to protect him. The group, which became known as Los Zetas, was mostly composed of former members of the Mexican ...
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.
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 ...
In March 2019, members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel executed a member of the Zetas Vieja Escuela, possibly in the state of Veracruz. [7] On April 2, members of the ZVE shot dead three people (one woman and two men) alleged members of the CJNG, abandoning them in the center of the municipality of José Azueta, in southern Veracruz. [8] [9]
The infighting in Los Zetas occurred between two factions, one led by Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano (alias El Lazca) and the other led by Miguel Treviño Morales (alias Z-40). The rumors of the split appeared in mid-2012, when public banners and music videos on the web alleged betrayals between the two leaders.
Los Talibanes, known to a lesser extant as Los Nortes, [2] are a Mexican criminal organization based in San Luis Potosí and Zacatecas.The name "Los Talibanes" is attributed to Iván Velázquez Caballero "El Talibán" or "El Z-50", who broke with Miguel Treviño Morales, "El Z-40", and allied himself with the Gulf Cartel to displace his former partner.
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Jesús Enrique Rejón Aguilar (a.k.a. Z-7, El Mamito) [1] is a former leader of the Mexican criminal organization known as Los Zetas. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He was wanted by the governments of Mexico and USA until his capture on July 4, 2011 in Atizapán de Zaragoza , a Mexico City suburb.