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Los Zetas  

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  • Los Zetas was formed in 1997 as the enforcement arm of the Gulf drug-trafficking organization based in Tamaulipas state in northeast Mexico. Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, who was competing for leadership of the organization, recruited about 30 members and former members of Mexico's Special Forces (GAFE), led by Lieutenant Arturo Guzmán Decenas. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Terrorism; Zetas, Los]

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