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[20] The Gulf Cartel lashed out to attack Los Zetas at their stronghold in San Fernando. According to The Monitor , the municipality of San Fernando is a "virtual spiderweb" of dirt roads that connect with Monterrey , Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa, and Matamoros—making it a prized territory for drug traffickers.
In response to the Gulf Cartel attacks, Los Zetas left 14 mutilated bodies in an abandoned bus in a Ciudad Mante shopping-center parking lot. [71] The bodies of ten men and four women, reported at about 9 a.m. on 23 June 2012, were left with a message to the Gulf Cartel [71] which was not revealed by authorities. [72]
The 2012 Nuevo Laredo massacres were a series of mass murder attacks between the allied Sinaloa Cartel and Gulf Cartel against Los Zetas in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, across the U.S.-Mexico border from Laredo, Texas. The drug-violence in Nuevo Laredo began back in 2003, when the city was controlled by the Gulf Cartel.
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 ...
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 ...
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]
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 ...
The 2010 San Fernando massacre, also known as the first massacre of San Fernando, [2] was the mass murder of 72 undocumented immigrants by the Los Zetas drug cartel in the village of El Huizachal in the municipality of San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The 72 killed—58 men and 14 women—were mainly from Central and South America, and they ...