Los Zetas Crimes, Drugs and Murders HD - Drug Cartel Documentary

Los Zetas (Spanish for "The Z's") is a powerful and violent criminal syndicate in Mexico, and also is taken into consideration by the U.S. government to be the "most technically advanced, and also dangerous cartel operating in Mexico." The beginnings of Los Zetas dated back to the late 1990s when commandos of the Mexican Army's forces deserted their ranks and decided to work as the armed wing of the Gulf Cartel, a medicine trafficking organization. In February 2010, Los Zetas broke away from their former employer and formed their very own criminal organization.

Los Zetas are well armed and also well equipped, and unlike other traditional criminal organizations in Mexico, medicine trafficking makes up just around 50 % of their revenue, while a huge portion of their earnings comes from other tasks routed against both competing drug cartels and private citizens; their harsh tactics, which consist of beheadings, abuse and also indiscriminate slaughter, show that they frequently prefer brutality over bribery. Los Zetas are also Mexico's biggest medicine cartel in terms of geographical presence, overtaking its competitors, the Sinaloa Cartel.

Los Zetas Crimes, Drugs and Murders

The team's name Los Zetas is offered after its very first leader, Arturo Guzman Decena, whose Federal Judicial Police radio code was "Z1", a code offered to upper-level policemans. The radio code for Commanding Federal Judicial Police Officers in Mexico was "Y" and also are nicknamed Yankees, for Federal Judicial Police accountable of a city the radio code was "Z", as well as hence they were nicknamed as the letter in Spanish, "Zetas".

After Osiel Cardenas Guillen took full command of the Gulf Cartel in 1999, he found himself in an intense grass war. In order to keep his company as well as leadership, Cardenas sought out Ruben Salinas alias el Chato, a retired Army lieutenant which tempted more than 30 military deserters of the Mexican Army's elite Grupo Aeromóvil de Fuerzas Especiales (GAFE) to become his personal bodyguards, as well as later on, as his mercenary wing. These Army deserters were lured with wages much above those of the Mexican Army. Cardenas' target was to safeguard himself from rival medication cartels and also from the Mexican armed force. A few of the original members, who had come from the GAFE device, had throughout the 1990s supposedly obtained training in task force and also urban warfare from Israeli Special Forces Units as well as American Special Forces devices, that included training in quick implementation, marksmanship, ambushes, counter-surveillance and also intimidation tactics.

When Osiel Cardenas Guillen consolidated his position as well as supremacy, he expanded the obligations of Los Zetas, and as years passed, they became a lot more vital for the Gulf Cartel. The Zetas started to arrange kidnappings, protection rackets, extortion, protecting cocaine supply and trafficking routes called plazas (areas) as well as executing its foes, frequently with barbaric savagery.

Guzman Decena was killed by members of the Mexican armed force on November 2002 in a restaurant in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, enabling Heriberto Lazcano to take command of the paramilitary group. In response to the rising power of the Gulf Cartel, the rival Sinaloa Cartel set up a heavily armed, well-trained enforcer team called Los Negros. The team ran likewise to Los Zetas, but with less complexity and success. Upon the arrest of the Gulf Cartel boss Osiel Cardenas Guillen in March 2003 as well as his extradition in 2007, the Zetas took a more active management function within the Gulf Cartel and their influence increased higher within the company.

In 2010, however, Los Zetas and also the Gulf Cartel broke apart.