Mexican authorities confirmed the death on Sunday ... one of the two factions of the notoriously violent cartel. Los Zetas was regarded as one of the most dangerous of Mexico’s drug cartels ...

By 2011, Z-40 and Z-42 were part of Lazcano's inner circle of high-ranking members and after his death in 2012 they took over as the main leaders of Los Zetas. Despite their success leading Los ...

The death is the latest in a string of blows against ... were recruited by the Gulf cartel to create its enforcement arm, Los Zetas. In ensuing years, the Zetas split into a major drug trafficking ...

Two Los Zetas cartel assassins have had their convictions ... use of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence causing death. The court rejected their appeal on that count.

Lazcano was the last piece of the structured command and control organization that held Los Zetas together as a cohesive unit. The uncertainty surrounding his death and the embarrassing theft of his ...

"After their arrests, the defendants allegedly renamed Los Zetas to Cartel del Noreste (CDN ... and face the possibility of the death sentence if convicted, according to reporters at the hearing.

The Zetas drug cartel exercised so much control ... Arizona and California and his work has appeared in various publications, including the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, New York Post and ...

Marciano “Chano” Millan Vasquez , an accused regional kingpin of the feared Zetas cartel, personally wielded an ax to kill a 6-year-old girl, then ordered the girl’s parents hacked to death ...

In 2012 she provided police with information which allowed them to successfully capture her daughter’s killers, but reportedly began to receive death threats ... army after Los Zetas attempted ...