The Zetas distinguished themselves both as international narcotics traffickers and highly competent executioners (Mexico Gulf Reporter), they thrive on torture, dropping enemies into barrels of acid, beheadings, castrations, and the dismemberment of victims before they die. A former deputy attorney general, then in charge of Mexico's Office for Organized Crime Special Investigation, said Yucatán state and half of Mexico belonged to the Zetas. Their professional trademarks include decapitations of deceased victims and hanging competitors from bridges and other public locations (Bertrand, 2015). Los Zetas invaded in the Cancun Area like a plague, predominantly along a tourist area around the Riviera Maya area, the Zetas unknown until early
