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The First Militaristic Drug Cartel | Narco Wars


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·Nov 11, 2024

My name is Arturo Fontes. I was an FBI agent for approximately 28 years. People laugh at me because I left sunny San Diego with beaches and everything, and a nice big house to be in a small town, in Laredo. They call it "the armpit" of Texas. [honking] It takes you all the way into Dallas, and it even goes all the way up North in the US. Now this is an area where there was the biggest number of trucks crossing the whole border. It was a very important route.

The Gulf Cartel was shipping marijuana, cocaine, heroin through Texas to across the United States. The Gulf Cartel was onto a good thing, but it was about to get a whole lot better with the North American Free Trade Agreement.

PRESIDENT CLINTON: And after we'll pare down trade barriers between our three nations, it will create the world's largest trade zone. Today we have the chance to do what our parents did before us. We have the opportunity to remake the world.

ARTURO FONTES: In Nuevo Laredo, it's more important than almost any other area in Mexico, and that's why it's a battleground. It's a crown jewel for drug trafficking-- everybody wants that.

MIKE CHAVARRIA: Osiel was a genius at being able to read people and manipulate them. He was brilliant at influencing people to do things that they shouldn't be doing. In the special forces, they had radio code with the zed letter. So they would have, like, [speaking spanish].. They're be like, you know, Z2, I'm on alert. They quickly became called "The Zetas," or "The Zeds," after that radio code.

MIKE CHAVARRIA: Osiel saw in them a discipline that your regular trafficker did not have, and that was a militarized discipline. A respect for chain of command, loyalty, the willing to attack the hill when told, regardless of the outcome. We saw that the Zetas were becoming a threat. There was definitely a foreboding of things to come as the Zetas began to grow and become stronger.

And they were learning the drug trade from the Gulf Cartel. Osiel is definitely in the crosshairs of the FBI and DEA. He is public enemy number one. [gunfire] The arrest was like a scene out of Afghanistan, Iraq. [gunfire] The Mexican military I believe may have lost one or two soldiers during the course of that gun battle. [gunfire] Osiel survived. He was apprehended, but it was quite the shootout.

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