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Alejo Garza Tamez (July 17, 1933 – November 14, 2010), better known as Don Alejo was a Mexican businessman, rancher, and recreational hunter. Don Alejo gained fame after making a last stand against the Los Zetas cartel, in defense of his ranch, near Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas.
After the division of Los Zetas, two criminal groups were formed, which became involved in a dispute for control of Tamaulipas, these factions are the Zetas Vieja Escuela and the Cártel del Noreste, a name given by Juan Francisco Treviño Morales to his Zetas faction and its creation was immediately made public, understanding that its main ...
Óscar Eduardo Guerrero Silva (1971 – 1 February 2004), commonly referred to by his alias Z-8 and/or The Winnie Pooh, was a Mexican drug lord and high-ranking leader of Los Zetas, a Mexican criminal organization. Shortly after marrying, Guerrero Silva joined the Mexican Army in early 1992 and became an infantry soldier.
On May 8, 2011, Mexican Naval Infantry patrolling the lake discovered a camp of Zetas on an island believed to be used for smuggling marijuana into the United States by speedboat. The marines fired first and a battle began that left twelve cartel members and one marine dead. Twenty small arms were captured including assault rifles. [8]
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]
Rogelio González Pizaña, also known as Z-2 or El Kelin, [2] was born in Mexico on 1 March 1974. [3] In the late 1990s, the Gulf Cartel leader Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, fearing his rivals, decided to form an elite armed squadron to protect him. The group, which became known as Los Zetas, was mostly composed of former members of the Mexican ...
Luis Alberto Guerrero Reyes (died 10 May 2004) was a Mexican suspected drug lord and high-ranking member of Los Zetas, a criminal group based in Tamaulipas, Mexico.He joined the Mexican Army in 1987, specializing in explosives, martial arts and grenade launchers.
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 ...