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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 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 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]
Mexican drug kingpin Osiel Cardenas Guillen, former leader of the notorious Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas criminal gang, was released Friday from a U.S. prison and handed over to the immigration ...
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]
After the division of Los Zetas, two criminal groups were formed, which became involved in a dispute for control of Tamaulipas, these factions are the Zetas Vieja Escuela and the Cártel del Noreste, a name given by Juan Francisco Treviño Morales to his Zetas faction and its creation was immediately made public, understanding that its main ...
Los Zetas are known for carrying out a number of attacks, but this one was described as "one of the most elaborate." [ 48 ] A third car bomb was abandoned on 29 June 2012 in front of the municipal palace at around 11:00 a.m., and exploded just below the office of Benjamín Galván Gómez, the mayor of Nuevo Laredo. [ 56 ]
In 1900, he purchased the 8 Ranch in Guthrie, Texas, which became the nucleus of the present-day 6666 Ranch, followed by the Dixon Creek Ranch and later purchases which now all make up the ranch's ...