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During the 2010s, inmates linked with various cartels, including Los Zetas, the Gulf Cartel, and the Sinaloa Cartel, were added to the prison. [1] The prison became dangerous and failed several assessments due to the introduction of the cartel inmates, with the last assessment before the riots deeming it to have a lack of governance and an ...
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.
An Illinois family is urging Mexican authorities to arrest drug cartel members allegedly responsible for Jesus Macias' death near Villanueva, Zacatecas, after he was killed at an improvised ...
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 ...
Washington has also been involved with Mexico's own war on drugs already. The United States sent Mexico over $3 billion in security aid from 2008 to 2023. A big question is whether the Mexican ...
The San Fernando massacre was one of the most high-profile incidents attributed to the Zetas. It took place in Tamaulipas state in 2010, only 93 miles from the U.S. border. The Zetas killed 72 ...
On the morning of 1 June 2012, a huge banner was put up by cartel members in downtown Zacatecas. Almost simultaneously, four teenagers climbed a pedestrian bridge at a busy avenue in Monterrey and placed the same banner with a large picture of Lazcano in the center. [18]
Mexico’s president said Friday he won’t fight Mexican drug cartels on U.S. orders, in the clearest explanation yet of his refusal to confront the gangs. Over the years, President Andrés ...