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Los Zetas
Zeta is Spanish for the last letter of the English and Greek alphabet. The criminal organization known as los Zetas takes its name from a code for high-ranking military officers. The Keyser Söze of the Mexican drug trade, los Zetas are said to be about fifty of Mexico’s most elite military men, trained in special operations by the US Army, and then sent to exterminate the leader of the Gulf cartel. But as the story goes, the commandos instead defected and offered to work as enforcers for the same cartel they’d been assigned to destroy.
Led by a man known el Verdugo (“the Executioner”) los Zetas have recently branched out into armed robbery and freelance assassination. Rumor has it they’re growing too powerful for the Gulf cartel to control. People say the head of the Gulf cartel refuses to meet with el Verdugo in person, communicating with him only by telephone or through representatives.
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