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Osiel Cárdenas Guillén (born 18 May 1967) is a Mexican drug lord and the former leader of the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas.Originally a mechanic in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, he entered the cartel by killing Juan García Abrego's friend and competitor Salvador Gómez, after the former's arrest in 1996.
The Gulf Cartel, a drug cartel based in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, was founded in the 1930s by Juan Nepomuceno Guerra. [15] [16] Originally known as the Matamoros Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Matamoros), [17] the Gulf Cartel initially smuggled alcohol and other illegal goods into the U.S. [16] Once the Prohibition era ended, the criminal group controlled gambling houses, prostitution rings ...
Salcido Cisneros was the leader of the "Tropa del Infierno", a group of hitmen under the direction of the Cartel Del Noreste (CDN) fraction of Los Zetas. [113] Several other Tropa del Infierno gunmen was injured in the clashes as well. [113] In May 2020, Moisés Escamilla, a leader of the "Old School Zetas" died in prison after contracting ...
Cardenas founded the Zetas, an armed wing of the Gulf Cartel made. MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -One of the most notorious drug chiefs in Mexico's history, Osiel Cardenas, was released from a U.S. prison ...
Mexican drug kingpin Osiel Cardenas Guillen, former leader of the notorious Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas criminal gang, was released Friday from a U.S. prison and handed over to the immigration ...
The Biden administration has released a notorious Mexican drug cartel leader from U.S. federal prison and is planning to hand him over to Mexico, a U.S. official told NBC News.. Osiel Cárdenas ...
[4] [5] Other sources indicate that the infighting could have been caused by the suspicions that the Rojos were "too soft" on the Gulf Cartel's bitter enemy, Los Zetas. [6] When the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas split in early 2010, some members of the Rojos stayed with the Gulf Cartel, while others decided to leave and join the forces of Los Zetas ...
Los Zetas were a group of soldiers who defected in the late 1990s to work as assassins, bodyguards and drug runners for the Gulf Cartel, then led by Osiel Cárdenas Guillén. They split off from the Cartel in early 2010 following Cárdenas Guillén's arrest and extradition and attempts by Cartel leadership to limit their activities. [6] [7]