Zetas set up 30 roadblocks in attempt to free arrested leader

From missionaries in Mexico:

Yesterday the army arrested the Monterrey-area boss of the Zetas, known as El Tory, and, in an effort to free him, his Zeta operatives set up 30 roadblocks all over the city which completely shut it down. I had spent the whole day in Monterrey and, fortunately for me, I’d just [...]

Blowback. Elite narcos originally trained by US military now training MS 13

Members of Mara Salvatrucha are being trained by the Zetas in Mexico.

According to these police sources the young gangsters were being skilled in light weapons tactics by former Kaibiles, the notorious Guatemalan special forces counterpart to the Mexican GAFE which produced the original Los Zetas cadre.

This shouldn’t be much of a surprise considering [...]

NarcoPetro dollars – Zetas inside Pemex

On Wednesday a [Mexican] federal joint task force raided Pemex security offices on the sixth and seventh floors of the $100 billion state-controlled company, seizing all computers and racks of documents as part of its investigation into the theft of some $70 to $90 million of oil and fuel from Pemex pipelines over the past [...]