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Monterrey – Army troops raided a factory in the northern state of Nuevo Leon, killing three people, wounding five others and arresting 18, the Mexican Defense Secretariat said Wednesday, adding that 1.5 tons of marijuana were seized in the operation.
The soldiers came under fire when they arrived at the factory just after midnight on Tuesday and engaged the criminals in a firefight, the secretariat said.
The factory is what is known in Mexico as a “narco maquila,” an assembly plant with an illegal drug processing facility hidden inside.
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The building, which is in Guadalupe, a city in the Monterrey metropolitan area, was used to store, package and distribute drugs by the Los Zetas cartel, which paid mainly young female workers 2,500 pesos ($200) a week to process the marijuana, a military spokesman said.
Soldiers seized arms, ammunition and three vehicles, including an SUV disguised as a carpentry shop vehicle, in the operation.
Los Zetas, a band of Mexican special forces deserters turned hired guns, have been battling rival cartels for control of smuggling routes into the United States since March.
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After several years as the armed wing of the Gulf cartel, Los Zetas went into the drug business on their own account and now control several lucrative territories.
The Gulf, Sinaloa and La Familia Michoacana drug cartels have formed an alliance to battle Los Zetas.
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The cartels arrayed against Los Zetas blame the group’s involvement in kidnappings, armed robbery and extortion for discrediting “true drug traffickers” in the eyes of ordinary Mexicans willing to tolerate the illicit trade as long as the gangs stuck to their own unwritten rule against harming innocents.
Last month, soldiers and Federal Police officers took control of the police department in Guadalupe as part of a “reorganization and cleansing” operation, and arrested 12 state and municipal officers.
So who rents this warhouse who has title to the SUV who set up the dummy Company is there a bank account are there any credit cards whos name are they in, search every small medium warhouse building, in every town city village, if you find drugs etc forfit the property to the state sell it ---
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ReplyDeleteI wonder why your articles keep perpetuating the wrong notion that los Zetas are "a band of Mexican special forces deserters turned hired guns"?
That may have been 10-15 years ago at the beginning when Oziel Cardenas hired them. Now a days they are just scum and lowlifes like all other mindless criminals.
I think the workers here should have spoken up to the authorities (La Marina or Army, not the police). I know were making more in one week than a lot of people in Mexico make in a month but it is still wrong. How many people are working under the same circumstances currently? This disgusts me, people need to speak up against this. I know it's hard and it can be deadly, but necessary. More people will die, eventually their own families if they don't speak up.
ReplyDeletethose little nigger bags, dosis of mota were not meant for export....wake up mexico you have a drug problem ...not just the USA
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