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Óscar Omar Treviño Morales [1] (born January 26, 1974) is a Mexican convicted drug lord and former leader of Los Zetas, a criminal organization. He was one of Mexico's most-wanted drug lords . His brother is Miguel Treviño Morales , a former leader of the group.
The family had a relationship with the gang Los Texas (later absorbed by the Gulf Cartel in 2001), which controlled the city of Nuevo Laredo. That was where Miguel Ángel, Juan Francisco and Omar Treviño Morales began their criminal life. On December 29, 1993, in a random search by the United States Customs Service, Juan Francisco's vehicle ...
The Mexican government blamed Martín Omar Estrada Luna (a.k.a. El Kilo), the regional leader of Los Zetas in San Fernando, for the massacres. [10] The man, who reportedly worked for Morales, was urged to keep a low body count in San Fernando in efforts to prevent the Mexican Armed Forces from disrupting their operations. [ 11 ]
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (Reuters) - The U.S. government is restarting asylum appointments at a dangerous Mexican border town, according to Customs and Borders Protection (CBP), just days after U.S ...
A total of 18 Celaya police officers have been shot to death so far this year, making the city of a half million inhabitants probably the most dangerous city in the hemisphere for police.
CELAYA, Mexico (AP) — A dead man lay on his back in the parking lot of a convenience store in late February when journalists rolled in to the north-central Mexico city of Celaya to interview police.
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.
On 13 May 2012 on Federal Highway 40 in the city of Cadereyta Jiménez, 49 people were decapitated and mutilated by members of Los Zetas and dumped on a roadside near the city of Monterrey in northern Mexico. [82] [83] The bodies were found in the town of San Juan in Cadereyta Jiménez at about 4 a.m. on a highway leading to Reynosa.