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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.
The violence between the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas, their former armed wing, continued. [25] In 2010, Los Zetas broke apart from the Gulf Cartel and both organizations began to turn their weapons against each other. [26] The clash between these two groups first happened in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, and then expanded to Nuevo Laredo and Matamoros. [27]
The 2011 San Fernando massacre, also known as the second massacre of San Fernando, [1] was the mass murder of 193 people by Los Zetas drug cartel at La Joya ranch in the municipality of San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, in March 2011. [2]
The founder of the feared Los Zetas drugs cartel has been deported to Mexico after serving a lengthy jail sentence in the United States. Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, 57, led Los Zetas until 2003 ...
By Los Zetas: San Fernando massacre: April 6, 2011 San Fernando, Tamaulipas 193 Gruesome murder by Los Zetas of 193 travelers using barbaric, gladiator style tactics. Ruiz massacre: May 25, 2011 Ruiz, Nayarit: 29 3 Wounded. one of the most violent clashes between criminal organizations in Mexico between Sinaloa Cartel and Los Zetas. [106] [107 ...
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 ...
San Fernando, Tamaulipas, is notorious for experiencing two of the largest recorded massacres of the Mexican drug war.The first massacre, known as the 2010 San Fernando massacre, occurred following a gunfight in Tamaulipas between drug cartel gunmen and Mexican authorities, in which three gunmen and a marine were killed. [2]
Ciudad Mante, 250 miles south of Texas, is a sugar-cane-growing community with nearly 110,000 people. [65] [66] Investigators said that the victims (11 men and three women) were found with a message. [67] According to Proceso magazine, the message was from the Sinaloa Cartel to Los Zetas (which controlled the city's drug trafficking). [68]