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But a simmering rivalry between two crime syndicates has exploded in open warfare this year, as the Gulf cartel and its former bodyguard corps, a paramilitary unit known as the Zetas, fight for control of lucrative smuggling corridors to the billion-dollar U.S. drug markets and for the right to steal oil from the state energy company, according to Mexican law enforcement officials.
Drug war violence appears in Mexico's northeast, near Texas border 2010
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He calls Zetas a "scourge," but does not claim responsibility for last week's slayings.
News - latimes.com 2011
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He calls Zetas a "scourge," but does not claim responsibility for last week's slayings.
News - latimes.com 2011
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Mexicans took the hit to be part of a feud between the Gulf cartel and a gang of hit men who split from it known as the Zetas, who have been battling in Tamaulipas this year.
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Mexicans took the hit to be part of a feud between the Gulf cartel and a gang of hit men who split from it known as the Zetas, who have been battling in Tamaulipas this year.
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Gulf cartel and a gang of hit men who split from it known as the Zetas, who have been battling in drug trafficking organization in their own right, with operations reaching deep into Central
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Analysts say the involvement of the defectors -- known as "Zetas" -- who went to work as enforcers for another cartel, the Gulf cartel, has increased the already high level of violence in Mexico's drug wars.
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That era came to an end when the Gulf cartel arrived to challenge those territorial rights bringing with it, the "Zetas" - paid assassins.
Crisis Group 2009
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Calderon's office described Beltran Leyva as an ally of the "Zetas" -- former paramilitaries working with the Gulf cartel.
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Violence in Tamaulipas surged last year after the Gulf Cartel, which has long controlled the state, split with a group known as the Zetas, a criminal group originally formed by Mexican army deserters who acted as enforcers for the Gulf Cartel.
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