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2. Osiel Cárdenas Guillén - Wikipedia

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   Osiel Cárdenas Guillén (born 18 May 1967) is a Mexican drug lord and the former leader of the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas.Originally a mechanic in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, he entered the cartel by killing Juan García Abrego's friend and competitor Salvador Gómez, after the former's arrest in 1996.

3. Gulf Cartel - Wikipedia

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   The Gulf Cartel, a drug cartel based in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, was founded in the 1930s by Juan Nepomuceno Guerra. [13] [14] Originally known as the Matamoros Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Matamoros), [15] the Gulf Cartel initially smuggled alcohol and other illegal goods into the U.S. [14] Once the Prohibition era ended, the criminal group controlled gambling houses, prostitution rings ...

4. Los Zetas - Wikipedia

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   Los Zetas was named after its first commander, Arturo Guzmán Decena, whose Federal Judicial Police radio code was "Z1", [35] a code given to high-ranking officers. [36] [37] [38] 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 ...

5. The power of blood: Why Mexican drug cartels make such ... - AOL

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   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 ...

6. Mexican drug lord who founded ultra-violent Zetas is released ...

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   Cardenas founded the Zetas, an armed wing of the Gulf Cartel made up of former army special forces. He was captured after a gun battle in 2003 and extradited to the United States in 2007. He was ...

7. U.S. plans to hand ex-Gulf Cartel chief who founded bloody ...

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   As Reuters reported, by 2012 the Zetas had grown to a force of 10,000 gunmen that took up a dominant position in the cross-border drug trade after committing some of the worst atrocities in the ...

8. Arturo Guzmán Decena - Wikipedia

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   He defected from the military in 1997 and formed Los Zetas, the Gulf Cartel's former paramilitary wing, under the leadership of the kingpin Osiel Cárdenas Guillén. [1] Guzmán Decena was born in a poor family in Puebla and joined the military as a teenager to escape from poverty. While in the military, he was a talented and bright soldier ...

9. Drug cartel boss Osiel Cardenas, known for extreme violence ...

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   Cardenas also founded what became the Zetas Cartel, an armed wing of the Gulf Cartel made up of former army special forces, known for extreme violence. The Zetas later branched off and for a time ...