Mexican authorities capture alleged boss of notorious Zetas cartel in Mexico City

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Mexican authorities capture alleged boss of notorious Zetas cartel in Mexico City
Kate Linthicum
Los Angeles Times
February 9th, 2018

Mexican authorities have arrested the alleged leader of the Zetas drug cartel ? long one of the country's most powerful and notoriously brutal criminal groups.

Jose Maria Guizar Valencia, who is accused of overseeing an organization that traffics thousands of pounds of cocaine and methamphetamine to the United States each year, was nabbed Thursday while entering a hotel in a fashionable neighborhood in Mexico City, authorities said Friday.

Mexican National Security Commissioner Renato Sales said in a statement that Guizar, 38, was captured without force.

In a nation gripped by escalating violence driven by warring criminal groups, Guizar was one of Mexico's most-wanted men. The United States had offered a $5-million reward for his arrest and had formally requested his extradition. Sales said there are arrest warrants for Guizar in several U.S. states for crimes including arms smuggling, kidnapping and murder.

His capture was celebrated by public officials from both sides of the border, with U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Roberta Jacobson tweeting that Guizar's arrest and other law enforcement efforts "make Mexico and the United States safer."
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His capture was celebrated by public officials from both sides of the border, with U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Roberta Jacobson tweeting that Guizar's arrest and other law enforcement efforts "make Mexico and the United States safer."
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Los Zetas are a criminal group co-founded by Mexican Army Special Forces soldiers and is now comprised mainly of corrupt ex-federal, state and local police officers, as well as ex-Kaibiles from Guatemala. Los Zetas were first employed as a mercenary army for the powerful Gulf Cartel. However, after the arrest of Gulf leader, Osiel C?rdenas Guillen, and a subsequent weakening of that cartel, Los Zetas became more than the enforcement branch of the Gulf Cartel and took a more active leadership in drug trafficking. Los Zetas now operates as an independent cartel, and are considered by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to be among the most technologically advanced, sophisticated and violent paramilitary groups in Mexico. (Grayson, George: Los Zetas: the Ruthless Army Spawned by a Mexican Drug Cartel. U.S. Foreign Policy Research Institute.)
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Moral of the story: power vacuums don't make anyone more safe
 
Homo stercore veteris, hetero diem.

This is just going to clear the way for a slightly more amateur but much more violent and noxious bunch to take over. The ones that hadn't the power to evict the leader, but will have a lot to prove on their first day on the job as top bollock.
 
Limpet_Chicken said:
Homo stercore veteris, hetero diem.

This is just going to clear the way for a slightly more amateur but much more violent and noxious bunch to take over. The ones that hadn't the power to evict the leader, but will have a lot to prove on their first day on the job as top bollock.
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I don't see how it could get more violent than Los zetas, these are the guys who were decapitating tourists.
 
I figure it'll be someone new stepping in to control los zetas from within. The new incumbent will, in cementing his rule and his power-base, have to be explicit, have to prove he is no pussy, or lose control from those with similar ambitions. And that will demand him exercising his power, showing the rest what a ruthless, vicious little bastard he can be. People will have to be made into examples etc. to cement his powerbase.

Oh well, it was going to happen. Lets just hope that all of those killed are police rather than people.
 
Los Zetas went out of their way to kill many Guatemalan citizens for territory on Mexico/Guatemala border.

There have been less atrocious cartels. None of them are blood free but I think that there should be less violence after they were taken down.
 
They did come to power by slaughtering the family of the head of thier parent organization. (The gulf cartel)

I do hope that some of the violence dies down a bit after this though.
 
It's the same logic as catching (and killing Osama Bin Laden) or any other leader of a violent organization. There are always going to be people rising to the top from within--not to mention other factions, or in this case other cartels that will take advantage of the situation and spread further violence by jockeying for control. Cartels and terrorist groups will never, never be stopped by "lopping off the head"--three more grow back in its place.

If Mexico were serious about stopping the cartels they would have to actually disperse the country's wealth differently. The cartels, like Hamas in Palestine, often build schools and clinics in the same towns they terrorize and control. But the people, who have been terrorized and controlled by the government forever, are at least getting schools and medical clinics out of the current devil they have to deal with.
 
From the sound of it, the cartel wasn't taken down, merely the head of the organization captured. That still means an awful lot of cartel members. And whoever climbs the bloody ladder to the position of official top bollock, is going to be new on the job, and thus, have a lot to prove. Which means killing people and probably lots of them, making a deliberate show of what a nasty fucking piece of shit they can be. To send out the message 'don't fuck with me'

Herbavore is totally right, about never stopping such groups by merely taking out the leader. They whacked osama bin laden, and did al qaeda disappear? did it bollocks.

And it seems like often as not, worse still, will step in to fill the power vacuum. Look at ISIS for example. Such a bunch of rabid cunts that even al qaeda despise them. If al qaeda loathes you on grounds of your islamic ideology and conduct, then you KNOW you are a major-league piece of shit.
 
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yeah yeah its all pointless until drugs are legalized and tax paying organizations can take over. Otherwise, another criminal will always take over. No matter what.
 
Well yeah, one country trying to police a global black market doesn't work. Especially when it's a billion dollar market like drugs.
 
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