LOS ZETAS
- Mexican criminal syndicate
- Most technologically advanced and dangerous cartel in Mexico (stated by US government)
&
Who Joins it?
What do they do?
How Did it Start?
What are the Benefits?
& Obligations of a Member
- Started in the late 1990s when commandos of the Mexican Army began working for the Gulf cartel as armed enforcement. In the beginning of 2010 they departed and formed their own criminal organization the 'Los Zetas'.
-commandos of mexican army
-members of Gulf Cartel
-people in poverty
-responsible for drug trafficking, extortion, protection rackets, kidnappings, and assassinations
-can not leave
- if you do, most end up dead
- Get large profits from drug trafficking which is basically 50% of the Los Zetas revenue
- Have a place to fit in
- Have friends
Mainly located in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Obligations:
- Obey leader
- Do what your told
-often use large Z as another
symbol
-carve Z into bodies of their victims
Bibliography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Zetas
http://list25.com/25-notoriously-dangerous-gangs/5/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/mexico/10182412/Crimes-of-the-Zetas-Mexicos-most-notorious-cartel.html
By Maya and Maddy