Thanks to Eeben for pointing these guys out to me. You learn something new all the time, and these guys have been going off the hook since 2003. This is a group, founded by Mexican Special Forces, that executed it’s operations like the military complete with an intelligence apparatus, all for the sake of the drug trade. That to me is evil, and that deserves an onslaught of negative media attention. Yet the media continues to focus on groups like Xe, because it’s easy and safe. Pffft.
The really bad guys are just south of the US border, and have been murderous heathens when it comes to crimes against humanity, yet where is the media pressure? I mean there is no comparison, when you put these guys up against Blackwater, but by all means keep demonizing BW. How about it Jeremy Scahill, why not write about a truly evil PMC and put your efforts into a Los Zetas book……that’s if your man enough? smirk
I also like the idea that Eeben came up with in that same post in the comments section. PMC versus PMC! I would love to see Executive Outcomes come out of retirement and take on these fools. That would be money well spent in my humble opinion. Although from the sounds of it, Los Zetas has kind of taken on an Al Qaeda type of emergence, where the original group is really not in control and the idea of the group lives on in spirit. Missed opportunities. Either way, the myth of the Los Zetas would be a good one to crumble if we could. –Matt
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Los Zetas: Evolution of a Criminal Organization
11 Mar 2009
By Samuel Logan for ISN Security Watch
From the original 31 members, the Mexican organized criminal faction Los Zetas has grown into an organization in its own right, operating separate from the Gulf Cartel and just as violent, Sam Logan writes for ISN Security Watch.
Between the first of the year and mid-March, 2009 the Mexican criminal organization most commonly known as “Los Zetas” has been busy. Members of this group have been linked to a death threat delivered to the president of Guatemala, a grenade thrown into a bar in Pharr, Texas, the death of a high-ranking military general in Cancun, and a fair share of the organized crime-related deaths registered this year in Mexico.