[167] They are primarily based in the border region of Nuevo Laredo and Coahuila with hundreds more throughout the country. 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[189] A recent report from the FBI shows US street gangs growing closer with Mexican cartels. Some sources claim that Guillén, brother of Cárdenas and one of the successors of the Gulf Cartel, was addicted to gambling, sex, and drugs, leading Los Zetas to perceive his leadership as a threat to the organization. [169][170] The cartel also has important areas of operation in Guatemala,[171] where their operations are reported to have begun as early as 2008. [67] The Cartel also reportedly began looking to form a truce with the rival Sinaloa Cartel, which Los Zetas did not want to recognize, allegedly preferring an alliance with the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel. Recruited by the Los Zetas cartel at the age of nine, she began to trend on social media two years ago, posing in body armour with a two way radio … 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 nicknamed as "Zetas", the Spanish word for the letter. [22] While primarily concerned with drug trafficking, the organization also runs profitable sex trafficking and gun running rackets. [151] It has been reported that more than 400 prison inmates escaped from several Tamaulipas prisons from January 2010 to March 2011 due to corruption. 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 nicknamed as \"Zetas\", the Spanish version of the lett… Mexico City: Lilaneta, 2007, Chapters 1 and 5. After Decena was killed in 2002 and his deputy was captured the following year, Heriberto Lazcano (also known as El Lazco or Z3) took over the leadership of the group. [citation needed], After Osiel Cárdenas Guillén took control of the Gulf Cartel in 1997, he found himself in a violent turf war. 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Chip Roy Releases Bill Asking Sec. [126][127] Tamaulipas was no exception; according to PAN politician Santiago Creel, the PRI in Tamaulipas had been protecting the Gulf-Zeta organization for years. [140][141][142] On 5 April 2010, at a prison in Reynosa, a convoy of ten trucks packed with gunmen entered the prison grounds without resistance, broke into the cells, and liberated thirteen "extremely dangerous" inmates. [62] As a result of this imbalance, the Cartel tried to curtail their own enforcers' influence and ended up instigating a civil war. They tortured victims, strung up bodies, and slaughtered indiscriminately. [117] Several other Tropa del Infierno gunmen was injured in the clashes as well. [65] In addition, Los Zetas charged that the Cartel was scapegoating them for the murders of innocent civilians. [115] He was believed to be in charge of the gang's operations in 12 municipalities in Veracruz, including Acayucan, Minatitlán and Coatzacoalcos, known as the state's most violent towns.