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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 ...
La Familia Michoacana. La Familia Michoacana (LFM; [3][4] English: The Michoacán Family), La Familia (English: The Family), is a Mexican drug cartel and organized crime syndicate based in the Mexican state of Michoacán. They are known to produce large amounts of methamphetamine in clandestine laboratories in Michoacan. [5]
Although the main line of investigation points towards drug trafficking, specifically the probable responsibility of the criminal organization "La Familia" that operates mainly in the state of Michoacán, it has distanced itself from the events by placing banners in various points of the capital Morelia.7 Likewise, Los Zetas, another criminal organization and armed wing of the Gulf Cartel ...
Knights Templar Cartel. The Knights Templar Cartel (Spanish: Los Caballeros Templarios) [5][6] was a Mexican criminal organization originally composed of the remnants of La Familia Michoacana drug cartel based in the Mexican State of Michoacán. [7][8] The Knights Templar Cartel used to indoctrinate its operatives to "fight and die" for the cartel.
The dominant cartels in the area are La Familia Michoacana and Los Caballeros Templarios, both originating locally after incursions by Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel. In early 2022, Tuzantla had seen cartel violence with an ambush on Mexican government arms inspectors raiding suspected cartel members' homes.
Miguel Treviño Morales. Miguel Ángel Treviño Morales (born 18 November 1970), commonly referred to by his alias Z-40, is a Mexican former drug lord and leader of the criminal organization known as Los Zetas. Considered a violent, resentful and dangerous criminal, he was one of Mexico's most-wanted drug lords until his arrest in July 2013.
Iván Velázquez Caballero (born February 10, 1970), also known by his alias El Talibán, is a Mexican convicted drug lord of the criminal group known as Los Zetas.The government of Mexico listed Velázquez Caballero in 2009 as one of its 37 most-wanted drug lords and was offering up to $30 million pesos, the equivalent of over $2.5 million USD, for information leading to his capture.
Rogelio González Pizaña. Rogelio González Pizaña (1 March 1974 – 6 December 2015), commonly referred to by his alias Z-2 and/or El Kelín, was a Mexican former drug lord and one of the founders of Los Zetas, a criminal organization originally formed by ex-commandos from the Mexican Armed Forces. Unlike the rest of the founders of Los ...