They first surfaced on YouTube with a reported beheading video. It is not yet known who the Mata Zetas (aka Matando Zetas) are or who they work for. Studies 1/, ‘A Contemporary Challenge To State Sovereignty’, 5.Ģ0. Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute. “ A Contemporary Challenge to State Sovereignty: Gangs and Other Illicit Transnational Criminal Organizations in Central America, El Salvador, Mexico, Jamaica, And Brazil”. Dist in Miles to US Border = 302 2009 – Avg. Myhre, Principle Consultant for Nordic Geospatial Consultants based on open source data set provided by Lisa Campbell, July 2009: 2006 – Avg Latitude = 22.197844, Avg Dist in Miles to US Border = 425 2007 – Avg. Studies 1/, ‘A Contemporary Challenge To State Sovereignty’.ġ8. , ‘Kaibiles: The New Lethal Force in the Mexican Drug Wars’.ġ7. ‘Kaibiles: The New Lethal Force in the Mexican Drug Wars’. , ‘Beheadings in Mexico: The Foreign Element in Mexico's Drug Wars’, and STRATFOR STRATFOR. ‘Beheadings in Mexico: The Foreign Element in Mexico's Drug Wars’. , ‘Behind Mexico's Wave of Beheadings’, STRATFOR STRATFOR. Sources used as background for this section are Grillo Grillo, Ioan. , ‘Drug Cartels Flex Muscle in Southwest’.ġ6. , ‘Mexican Drug cartels terror reaches deep into the US’.ġ5. ‘Mexican Drug Cartels Terror Reaches Deep into the US’. , ‘“Strong gang component” revealed in Newark schoolyard slayings’.ġ4. ‘“Strong gang component” revealed in Newark Schoolyard Slayings’. , ‘Lawyer Admits Client's Guilt in MS-13 Killing of Pregnant Teen’.ġ3. ‘Lawyer Admits Client's Guilt in MS-13 Killing of Pregnant Teen’. , ‘Local ICE agent taking border experience to Washington’, and Fleming Fleming, Jr., Gary A., dir.
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Beheadings, primarily taking place only in Mexico, are also analyzed with supporting database information provided. Specific forms of torture are discussed as well as the most likely victims and perpetrators.
This essay provides an overview of those incidents of torture and beheadings linked to the Mexican cartels and their mercenary and gang affiliates taking place both within Mexico and the United States.
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