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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 ...
Gulf Cartel [2] Grupo Delta [3] [4] Grupo Elite [5] Grupo Guerrero [6] Grupo X [7] Los Balcanes. Grupo Blanco; Los Cabos [8] Los Ciclones; Los Metros; Hells Angels MC [9] [10] Independent Cartel of Acapulco; Individualistas Tendiendo a lo Salvaje; Israeli mafia; Jalisco New Generation Cartel, a.k.a. CJNG; Juárez Cartel, a.k.a. Vicente Carrillo ...
Zacatecas is located in the center-north of Mexico, and covers an area of 75,284 km 2, the tenth-largest state in the country. [8] [9] [10] It borders the states of Nay, Jalisco, Aguascalientes, San Luis Potosí, Coahuila and Durango and is divided into 58 municipalities and 4,882 towns, cities and other communities.
Bullet casings line Highway 358 between the towns of Palmas Altas and Jerez in Zacatecas, Mexico. The valley of La Sierra Los Cardos is a contested territory of opposing drug cartels.
This is a list of towns in Zacatecas in Mexico. A. Alameda Juárez (Santa Rosa) ...
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.
The synthetic drugs are made by so-called cooks in Mexico, then smuggled into the U.S., where American-based cartel groups proceed to distribute them to big cities and rural towns.
Cartel activities are widely viewed as contributing to the weakening of democracy in Mexico, a country of 127 million, while escalating U.S.-Mexico tensions. Cartels are the major driver of rising ...