A suspected drug trafficker for the Los Zetas drug cartel wanted for serious crimes has been extradited from Mexico to the ...

A member of the Los Zetas cartel is expected to spend the rest of his life in a Mexican prison after receiving a sentence of ...

Mexican drug kingpin Osiel Cardenas Guillen, former leader of the notorious Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas criminal gang, was released Friday from a U.S. prison and handed over to the immigration ...

The volunteer group uncovered 4 skeletal remains and 54 fragments of skeletal remains in one property alone in Matamoros ...

Los Zetas, which was originally the armed wing of the Gulf Cartel, is infamous for its brutal violence and role in several atrocities, such as the 2011 San Fernando massacre where 193 bus passengers ...

A faction of the depleted Zetas drug cartel has joined forces with its longtime rival, the Gulf Cartel, to form the so-called “Carteles Unidos” (United Cartels), according to the jailhouse ...

The statement — signed by the head of the Gulf Cartel’s Los Rojos faction and the leader of the Zetas’ faction “Zetas Unidos” — claims the drug cartels agreed to the alliance because they want peace ...

In her compelling new book Los Zetas Inc., Correa-Cabrera follows the rise of the Zetas, Mexico’s first paramilitary cartel, and the government’s military response.

Los Zetas got their start as enforcers for one of Mexico’s oldest drug trafficking groups, the Gulf Cartel, which traces its roots to the 1930s, said University of Texas-El Paso anthropology ...

The Gulf Cartel began falling apart in 2003, after the arrest and extradition to the United States of its top leader, Osiel Cárdenas Guillén. Soon, the Zetas began competing for the Gulf Cartel’s ...

LOS ZETAS Originally 30 corrupt elite drug interdiction soldiers who served as Gulf enforcers, the Zetas (notorious for mass beheadings) now control their own drug-supply routes and have branched ...

• Tried to recruit U.S. gang members in Houston to join Los Zetas’ war against the Gulf Cartel on both sides of the border. • Was buying AK-47 semi-automatic assault rifles from the Tango ...