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This pаrt is wоrth 25 pоints: in а оne-pаge or more summary. Explain the significance of The Zeta Cartel. Who, what, when, where, how and why based on what you have read. Give your recommendation for a legitimate resolution if any. THE ZETAS AND THE GULF CARTEL The Gulf Cartel is a Mexican drug cartel based in Matamoros. The Zetas, a criminal group in Mexico, have created their own niche among drug enforcer gangs in that they operate “as a private army under the orders of Cárdenas’ Gulf Cartel, the first time a drug lord has had his own para-military.” Most reports indicate that a group of 30 lieutenants and sub-lieutenants who deserted from the Mexican Military’s Special Air Mobile Force Group (Grupo Aeromovil de Fuerzas Especiales, GAFES) to the Gulf Cartel in the late 1990s created the Zetas. As such, the Zetas were able to carry out operations that are more complex and use weaponry that is more sophisticated. The Zetas were instrumental in the Gulf Cartel’s domination of the drug trade in Nuevo Laredo and have fought to maintain the cartel’s influence in that city following the 2003 arrest of its leader, Osiel Cárdenas. Press reports have charged that these soldiers-turned-cartel-enforcers were trained in the United States; however, the Washington Office on Latin America was unable to confirm this claim. Estimates on the number of Zetas range from 31 up to 200. Reports indicate that although the Zetas initially comprised members of Special Forces, they now include federal, state, and local law enforcement personnel as well as civilians. In September 2005, testimony to the Mexican Congress by then Defense Secretary Clemente Vega indicated that the Zetas had also hired at least 30 former Guatemalan special forces (Kaibiles) to train new recruits because “the number of former Mexican Special Forces men in their ranks had shrunk from 50 to no more than a dozen, and they were finding it hard to entice more members of the Mexican military to join.” The Zetas act as assassins for the Gulf Cartel. They In addition, traffic arms, kidnap, and collect payments for the cartel on its drug routes. Mexican law enforcement officials report that the Zetas have become an increasingly sophisticated, three-tiered organization with leaders and middlemen who coordinate contracts with petty criminals to carry out street work. The Zetas have maintained the territory of the Gulf Cartel in the northern cities of Matamoros and Nuevo Laredo. In addition, they are believed to control trafficking routes along the eastern half of the U.S.-Mexico border. Thus, the Zetas now have a presence in southern Mexico, where the Gulf Cartel is disputing territory previously controlled by the Juarez and Sinaloa cartels. A recent federal investigation found that the Zetas also engage in kidnapping, drug dealing, and money laundering. In July 2006, local police in the southern state of Tabas-co unknowingly arrested Mateo Diaz Lopez, believed to be a leader of the Zetas. The arrest prompted an assault on the police station, killing four people, including two police
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