CDN: Isabel Treviño, a Founder of the Bloodthirsty Cartel

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Isabel Treviño: the deserter of "Los Zetas" who founded one of the most bloodthirsty cartels in Mexico She was characterized for  recruiting women for the ranks of criminal assassinations.

Ana Isabel Treviño Morales is the name of the woman who founded one of the most bloodthirsty cartels in Mexico, the Northeast Cartel (CDN).

To achieve this she first had to defect from the ranks of another criminal organization, "Los Zetas", whose bosses were her brothers Miguel Ángel, alias "Z-40", and Omar, "Z-42" .

After the arrest, in 2013, of  "Z-40", and two years later of  "Z-42", Ana Isabel and her nephew, José Francisco, "Kiko, Treviño Chávez , founded the CDN, which has as its center of operations the state of Tamaulipas, territory where Los Zetas grew.

She, along with other women of her family, was a fundamental piece for the criminal organization to take over the state of Nuevo Leon, but although the sale and distribution of drugs is part of its catalog of crimes,  grow it was kidnapping and human trafficking is what actually made them grow.

Some of its centers of operations were in the border state were the bars called Terraza and Rumba, from there organized kidnappings, robberies and extortions.

The Los Zetas deserter was known for recruiting women, including family members, in the ranks of delinquency , such as her own daughter Sofía del Carmen Monsiváis Treviño, who was arrested in January 2018.

A group of young women who call themselves "Las Marucheras" are violent assassins who claim to belong to the Northeast Cartel (CDN).

The nickname of "Las Marucheras" comes from the nickname received by the "hawks" in the State of Tamaulipas who work for CDN: "Los Marucheros".

At first, the group of assassins began being "hawks" , but due to the captures or deaths of the leaders they began their rise in the crime world. They also got it on their own merits.

Two of the members of the Northwest Cartel, already arrested, drew attention and horrified society for their crimes, are: "The Little Sicaria" and "La Güera."

"The Little Sicaria", Juana "N"  arrived at the criminal group of Los Zetas, after the murder of her brother; who is proclaimed to have practiced necrophilia.

The woman confessed that at age 15 she became pregnant and to be able to support her son she  had to dedicate herself to prostitution, then she went to work for Los Zetas as "hawk", then she climbed positions in the criminal organization,  until she became the one in charge of beheadings and mutilations.

She murdered for such banal issues as the late payment of a rent. According to her story, the atmosphere of violence led her to develop certain practices, such  as having sex with the victims she had just killed.

"La Güera", linked to prosecution for the crimes of homicide and criminal association in Ciudad Victoria, at the beginning of last April, turned out to be the head of a cell of hit men belonging to the CDN, and who executed  the anti-kidnap prosecutor, Lucia Patricia Butrón Rivera, in the Las Palomas subdivision, in Ciudad Victoria, last March.

"La Güera" is considered part of the new generation of narco women   in which they are no longer just wives of cartel bosses or are in charge of managing money or managing business, but are also already  an active part of hired killers and leadership positions.

After the arrest of Z-40, successor of Heriberto Lazcano, alias "El Lazca", who was killed in Progreso , Coahuila, Ana Isabel Treviño promoted an injunction (amparo) to avoid being arrested by federal forces.

On November 28, 2017 , Isabel was arrested in Nuevo Laredo, in an operation that had the support of the Mexican Army and the Federal Police, according to the Attorney General's Office (PGJ) of Tamaulipas in a statement.

Although she was arrested for a kidnapping committed in 2016, the authorities confirmed that Ana Isabel Treviño controlled various activities related to human trafficking, smuggling, extortion, kidnapping, enforced disappearances and homicides.