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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.
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.
Nueva Plaza Cartel; Paisas; Pueblos Unidos; Sangre Nueva Zeta; Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel; Sinaloa Cartel, a.k.a. Pacific Cartel Artistas Asesinos; Gente Nueva, a.k.a. Los Chapos; Los Ántrax; Solo Ángeles CM, a.k.a. Solo Angels MC [13] [14] South Pacific Cartel; Tijuana Cartel [15] Vagos MC [16] Zetas Vieja Escuela
An unprecedented wave of violence has overtaken the Mexico state of Zacatecas, where four drug cartels are fighting to control territory. Bodies hanging from Mexico overpasses: Powerful drug ...
But the partnership has a cartel cloud lingering over it, as Mexico’s cartel activity has been on the rise since the 2000s, but only recently have U.S. lawmakers had the groups in their crosshairs.
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 ...
The U.S. and Mexican governments both face challenges: increased demand for narcotics in the U.S., increased supply of fentanyl in Mexico, and well-armed cartels so embedded in communities that ...
Politicians are usually targeted for three reasons: (1) Political figures who are honest pose a direct threat to organized crime, and are consequently killed by the cartels; (2) Politicians make arrangements to protect a certain cartel and are killed by a rival cartel; and (3) a cartel simply kills politicians to heat up the turf of the rival ...