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Ever since the original founders of Los Zetas were trained by US Special Forces personnel at the School of the Americas in Fort Benning, GA, they’ve been upping the ante and redefining the very model of a modern major drug cartel. Reports Alfredo Corchado of the Dallas News (“Mexico’s Zetas gang buys businesses along the border in move to increase legitimacy,” Dec. 6):
The Zetas, Mexico’s notoriously brutal group of paramilitary thugs, are expanding their role as bully businessmen along the Texas-Mexico border, branching out from traditional criminal enterprises such as extortion and drug trafficking and buying legitimate businesses, U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials say.
The group, which authorities say operates a weapons and drug distribution hub in North Texas, now calls itself “The Company” and has over the past year evolved from extorting businesses to owning them outright, the officials say.
Filed under: ATF, Censorship, Civil Liberties, DEA, DHS, Drugs, FBI, Guns, Immigration, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy | Tagged: Alfredo Corchado, Ciudad Acuña, Fort Benning, Laredo Police Department, Los Zetas, Matamoros, Mexico, Nuevo Laredo, Piedras Negras, Reynosa, School of the Americas, Special Forces, The Company, Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation | Leave a comment »
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