Thread: The Gulf Cartel Clamps Down on The Zetas

One of Mexico's most violent drug gangs has turned against its former armed wing in the latest outburst of killings on the U.S. border to test President Felipe Calderon's overstretched army crackdown.

The Gulf cartel's home turf in northeastern Mexico had been relatively calm, but tensions between the cartel and the Zetas, who split away in early 2008, broke into a full-scale war last month, U.S. and Mexican anti-drug officials say.

Made up of elite former soldiers who switched sides to join the Gulf cartel in the 1990s, the Zetas are now trying to run their own trafficking operation and are charging their old bosses taxes to use their routes. The Gulf cartel's recent killing of a Zeta leader may have sparked their battle.

Banners were hung across Reynosa on Wednesday telling the army to leave and vowing the Gulf cartel and its allies will defeat the Zetas.

"You fight poison with the same poison," read the banners, signed "Cartels of Mexico United against the Zetas."


http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=27077

it's going down.

Originally Posted by flex

One of Mexico's most violent drug gangs has turned against its former armed wing in the latest outburst of killings on the U.S. border to test President Felipe Calderon's overstretched army crackdown.

The Gulf cartel's home turf in northeastern Mexico had been relatively calm, but tensions between the cartel and the Zetas, who split away in early 2008, broke into a full-scale war last month, U.S. and Mexican anti-drug officials say.

Made up of elite former soldiers who switched sides to join the Gulf cartel in the 1990s, the Zetas are now trying to run their own trafficking operation and are charging their old bosses taxes to use their routes. The Gulf cartel's recent killing of a Zeta leader may have sparked their battle.

Banners were hung across Reynosa on Wednesday telling the army to leave and vowing the Gulf cartel and its allies will defeat the Zetas.

"You fight poison with the same poison," read the banners, signed "Cartels of Mexico United against the Zetas."


http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=27077

Yeah, these are the type of people we want in the United States of America!

I agree we don't need them Why don't you join the DEA and actually do something about it? It seems for someone who hates undocumented immigration so much you sure spend a lot of time online every day. You could actually make a difference.

http://www.krgv.com/news/local/story...d5abuVJDQ.cspx


A new intelligence report obtained by CHANNEL 5 NEWS says the recent violence along the border started with the murder of a Zeta leader on January 18th.

The Zetas blamed the Gulf Cartel and demanded they hand over the killer.

When they refused the Zetas then kidnapped 16 Gulf Cartel Members in Miguel Aleman.

That led to the shootouts up and down the border last week.

The report says the violence may not be over. It says the Gulf Cartel has now joined forces with La Familia Michoacana and the Sinaloa Cartel to fight the Zetas.

CHANNEL 5 NEWS will continue to monitor the situation.

^ Damn sum scandalous s**t!