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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 ...
In response to the multiple executions between the drug cartels, the federal government launched a military-led operation in the state of Veracruz, known in Spanish as Operativo Veracruz Seguro. [98] In October 2011, the state of Veracruz was a disputed territory between Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel and Sinaloa Cartel. [99]
Sinaloa Cartel logo. Eye-for-an-eye fighting between Los Zetas and the Sinaloa Cartel began in the fall of 2011 in Veracruz, a strategic smuggling state with a large Gulf port. [4] On 20 September, two trucks containing 35 bodies were found in an underpass near a shopping mall in Boca del Río. [5]
Cartel leaders are sending a message to the government, to their enemies and to the overall population, security experts say. The power of blood: Why Mexican drug cartels make such a show of their ...
Mexican drug cartels operating in the U.S. have been known to use "brujas" to cast spells and get information on police and rivals. ... in the southern state of Veracruz, rubbed an egg on his body ...
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]
Drug cartels in Mexico control approximately 70% of the foreign narcotics flow into the United States. [121] Mexican cartels distribute Asian [122] methamphetamine to the United States. [38] It is believed that almost half the cartels' revenues come from cannabis. [123] Cocaine, heroin, and increasingly methamphetamine are also traded. [124]
According to the testimony of 14 protected witnesses, Arellano Domínguez is alleged to have maintained a some kind of business relationship with former Veracruz Governor Fidel Herrera Beltrán. Their first meeting reportedly took place in Chicontepec de Tejeda , where someone captured a picture of the former governor and the drug lord.