Mexican Gang Kingpin Arrested

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Source: The New York Times

MEXICO CITY — A man who helped start one of Mexico’s most notorious criminal organizations has been arrested, adding to the list of high-profile kingpins the police and the military have arrested or killed in the past year.

The federal police said they arrested Flavio Méndez Santiago — known as El Amarillo, or the yellow one — on Monday outside Oaxaca, the capital of Oaxaca State in southwest Mexico.

A police statement said Mr. Santiago, 35, directed operations in three southern states for the group, Los Zetas, which originated in the early 1990s as a collection of former soldiers serving as enforcers for the Gulf Cartel.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/19/world/americas/19mexico.html

[derby378]

1. We can only hope this puts a crimp in the Zetas

They've also been interfacing with the 'Ndrangheta, one of the traditional three Mafias of Italy. That's not good at all.

[timo]

3. as well as

mara salva trucha, ms-13

[derby378]

4. MS-13 is still small potatoes compared to the Zetas

MS-13 doesn't have a core of ex-military vets who've turned into dug kingpins.

[timo]

6. the core

of the original zetas is not what it used to be, and if you think the cancer of ms-13 is small here in the U.S. your wrong they have a huge population scattered here, in almost every state and every major city!!

[Lint Head]

2. I afraid the gang will take revenge some time as they usually do.

[Systematic Chaos]

5. All the fun of endless "Al Qaeda #2" drama...

...and we can see it from our back yard!

As Mexico's oil production continues to plummet, we will come to realize that we ain't seen shit yet.

I give it 10 years before we're facing an all-out war on the border.