Los Zetas

Did you know that the Los Zetas is a Mexican gang that is based in America? The gang name translates to “The Z’s”. The Los Zetas gang was founded in 1999, with 31 members from the Mexican Army’s elite airborne Special Forces Group. The members were originally working for the Gulf Cartel as an enforcer gang. Then, they came to form a new gang called the Los Zetas. Their founders and leaders were Osiel Cardenas Guillen and Arturo Guzmán Decena, and the new members began working as drug runners, hired assassins, and bodyguards. The Los Zetas are now considered “the most technologically advanced, sophisticated, efficient, violent, ruthless and dangerous cartel operating in Mexico" (Wikipedia 1) by the U.S. government. The Los Zetas was named after its first commander, Arturo Guzmán Decena whos radio code for the Federal Justice police was “Z1.” A radio code is only given to high ranking officers. The code “Y” is for the commanding federal judicial police officers in Mexico. They were nicknamed the Yankees. For the officer in charge of a city…

Alex Mauntel Coach Klemm Los Zetas Due November 21, 2014 Los Zetas Los Zetas is a very large Mexican drug cartel. The Los Zetas cartel was formed back in the early 90’s when a group of Mexican army commandos left their ranks and became associated with a different drug cartel known as the gulf cartel. Los Zetas was formed but then broke off from their gulf cartel employer. They started their own drug cartel in which they are still with and it is still called Los Zetas. This issue is just…

eight months, and 26 days later, Mexico 's Drug War bypassed our right as consumers to be secure in our surroundings, services, and products and made the whole country uncertain of the events to come. Since 2006, the Mexican Drug Cartels ' (Los Zetas ') attacks have become Organized Crime. No one is Mexico is safe, and now neither is anyone in America. These organizations, both big…

Mexican Drug War has been an international example of continued policy failure. The complex conflict includes various actors, all of which play a different but important role. There are seven main drug cartels: Beltran-Leyva, Gulf, Juarez, La Familia Michoacana, Los Zetas, Sinaloa, and Tijuana/Arellano Felix. Each cartel maintains its own territory, and some areas are disputed among cartels. For example, Los Zetas controls the Central North and some of the Southeast coast, and the Gulf Cartel…

The problem with the Sinaloa Cartel and the Los Zetas Cartel is that they are trafficking drugs such as Marijuana, Cocaine, and Heroin, also they are trafficking Humans, and Guns. As of right now they are fighting over territory in Mexico ever since Joaquin Guzman “El Chapo” was taken out of the picture. There has been countless deaths in Mexico do to the shoot outs in the public community. Their drugs have also killed thousands of people in the US and in Mexico. The people that are affected by…

overweight Chicano man who constantly struggles with personal identity. As a county appointed lawyer in Oakland, California, Acosta experiences a mental struggle between his Mexican heritage and his personal integration into American culture. Oscar Zeta Acosta reacts to this internalized racism with a lack of personal identity displayed through his abandonment of responsibility, traditional male dominated gender dynamics, and his return to El Paso Mexican border. Prior to embarking on a…

18. As for colors, they wear blue, and as for symbols, they use the number 18, or they occasionally spell the number out using Roman numerals. We see traces of the gang originating as far back as the 1950’s, in Los Angeles, California, but the first official sightings of the gang are seen in the 1980’s in the same location, and gained attention in the Rodney King Riots that occurred in 1992. The gang now operates in the United States of America, Canada, Central America, and recently in Europe.…

was born, I had an older sister who passed away from bacterial meningitis, and I never got to meet her. She was not diagnosed until after she died, if she had been diagnosed while she was still alive, she could have been here today. When I was 14 I decided, I wanted to go into diagnostic x-ray, and be a part of the diagnosing process. I considered schools with a radiography program. Ferris State reviews said the program was one of the best in the country. I applied and got accepted into Ferris…

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson chronicles Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo in their search for The American Dream. Duke is Thompson’s alter ego and Gonzo represents Thompson’s actual attorney, Oscar Zeta Acosta. The setting, Las Vegas, is very economically significant, especially in the early 1970s where its buzzing economy and money are the focal points of the non-stop city. Believing The American Dream has…

Within the film “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” we see a strong perception of a pseudo-psychedelic trip. In this particular scene Duke (Johnny Depp) has taken too much Adrenochrome, causing him to fall into a drug educed trip while Dr. Gonzo (Benicio Del Toro) tries to get rid of Lucy over the phone. The stylistic choices of this movie depicts the hallucinogenic structure via camera movement, framing and composition, colour and the use of depth within the space. The overall tonal colour of…