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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.
The Gulf Cartel, a drug cartel based in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, was founded in the 1930s by Juan Nepomuceno Guerra. [13] [14] Originally known as the Matamoros Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Matamoros), [15] the Gulf Cartel initially smuggled alcohol and other illegal goods into the U.S. [14] Once the Prohibition era ended, the criminal group controlled gambling houses, prostitution rings ...
Jaime Jorge Zapata (May 7, 1978 – February 15, 2011) was an Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent who was ambushed and murdered by the Mexican criminal group Los Zetas in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. [2]
On President Donald J. Trump’s first day in office, he issued an executive order designating human and drug trafficking cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs). This week, the other ...
Los Zetas murder Mexican civilians, either Gulf Cartel members or US-bound immigrants. San Luis Potosí massacre: August 9, 2012 San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí (state) 14 The Mexican police found 14 dead bodies stuffed inside a SUV on 9 August 2012 along a highway in the city of San Luis Potosí La Pila Prison riot April 27, 2013
A post shared on social media purportedly shows a video of a truck full of bodies recently found in Mexico. Screenshot from X Verdict: False The video is from 2018. Fact Check: Mexican Drug ...
September 2 – Twenty seven suspected drug cartel gunmen are shot dead in clashes near the U.S. border in the state of Tamaulipas; the bodies were found on a property believed to be owned by Los Zetas. [158] September 8 – The mayor of El Naranjo, San Luis Potosí, Alexander López García, is killed in his office by a group of gunmen. [159]
The Cártel del Noreste (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkaɾtel ðel noˈɾeste], Northeast Cartel) is a Mexican criminal organization and U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization that splintered from Los Zetas, following the capture of the latter's last absolute leader Omar Treviño Morales. [1]