Gulf Cartel
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The Gulf Cartel is a criminal syndicate, drug trafficking organization, and U.S.-designated terrorist organization, which is perhaps one of the oldest organized crime groups in Mexico. It is currently
Osiel Cárdenas Guillén's extradition to the United States from Mexico.
Gulf Cartel factions in 2021. Los Ciclones Los Metros Los Rojos Panteras
Gulf Cartel hierarchy
A narco submarine seized in Ecuador in July 2010
Los Zetas
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Los Zetas is a fractured Mexican criminal syndicate and designated terrorist organization, known as one of the most dangerous of Mexico's drug cartels. They are known for engaging in brutally violent
Gulf Cartel
…sought and recruited over 30 deserters of the Mexican Army's elite Grupo Aeromóvil de Fuerzas Especiales (GAFE) to form part of the cartel's armed wing. Los Zetas, as they are known, served as the hired private mercenary army of the Gulf Cartel. Nevertheless, after the arrest and extradition of Cárdenas, internal…
Los Zetas presence in Mexico (2020)
Los Zetas gunmen interrogating a member of the Gulf Cartel
United States Border Patrol patrolling the Rio Grande in an airboat in Laredo, Texas