In what year did this criminal group, formed by former soldiers of the Mexican Armed Forces and Founded by Nabor Vargas Garcia, break away from their former employer and form their own criminal organization?
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Nabor Vargas García Nabor Vargas García (born 12 July 1976) is a Mexican suspected drug lord and one of the founders of Los Zetas, a criminal group formed by former soldiers of the Mexican Armed Forces.
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Los Zetas Los Zetas (] , Spanish for "The Zs") is a Mexican criminal syndicate. Considered by the US government to be "the most technologically advanced, sophisticated, efficient, violent, ruthless, and dangerous cartel operating in Mexico", the organization has expanded beyond the traditional purview of drug trafficking and also runs profitable sex trafficking and gun running rackets. The origins of Los Zetas date back to the late 1990s when commandos of the Mexican Army deserted their ranks and began working as the enforcement arm of the Gulf Cartel. In February 2010, Los Zetas broke away from their former employer and formed their own criminal organization.
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Bamboo Union The United Bamboo Gang also known as UBG () is the largest of Taiwan's three main criminal Triads. They are reported to have roughly 10,000 members. The membership consists largely of "waishengren" (Mainland Chinese) and has had historic ties to the Kuomintang; they are said to be motivated as much by political ideology as by profit. They are known to simply call themselves "businessmen", but in reality, are also involved in organized killings, drug trafficking, and sex trafficking, among others. The gang gained global notoriety when it became directly involved in politics in the early 1980s. The union does not view themselves as criminals, but instead they view themselves as patriots.
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Party of the Poor (Mexico) The Party of the Poor (Spanish: "Partido de los Pobres" , the PdlP) was a left-wing political movement and militant group in Mexico operating between 1967 and 1974. Led by the rural schoolteacher Lucio Cabañas, the PdlP – through its armed wing, the Peasants' Justice Brigade (Spanish: "Brigada Campesina de Ajusticiamiento" ) – waged guerrilla warfare against the Mexican government in the mountains of Guerrero.
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Los Ántrax Los Ántrax is an enforcer gang of the Mexican drug trafficking organization known as the Sinaloa Cartel. The group was led by the drug lords Jesús Peña ("El 20") and Rodrigo Aréchiga Gamboa ("El Chino Ántrax"), and they are responsible for a number of homicides and for providing armed security services to Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada. The gang operates in the capital city of Culiacán, Sinaloa, where its members conduct homicides and violent attacks.
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José Inés García Chávez José Inés García Chávez (Inés Chávez García) was a Mexican military man and bandit who participated in the Mexican Revolution.
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Arizona Rangers The Arizona Rangers are an Arizona unpaid, non-commissioned civilian auxiliary agency that is available to assist and support law enforcement modeled on the Texas Rangers. The Arizona Rangers were created by the Arizona Territorial Legislature in 1901, disbanded in 1909, and subsequently reformed in 1957. They were created to deal with the infestations of outlaws in the sparsely populated Arizona Territory, especially along the Mexican border. The rangers were an elite, well-trained, and originally a secretive agency mounted on quality horses and well equipped with modern weapons at the state's expense. The rangers were very effective in apprehending members of outlaw bands.
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Inés Coronel Barreras Inés Coronel Barreras (born 21 January 1968) is a convicted Mexican drug lord and former high-ranking leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, a drug trafficking organization. He is the father-in-law of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the former leader of the cartel and once considered Mexico's most-wanted man. Coronel Barreras was arrested by Mexican security forces in Agua Prieta, Sonora on 30 April 2013. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison on April 28, 2017 for drug trafficking and illegal possession of firearms.
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Operation Quintana Roo Operation Quintana Roo (Spanish:"Operacion Quintana Roo") is an anti-drug trafficking military operation jointly conducted by the Mexican army and navy in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. The operation began in early February 2009 after the death of former Brigadier General Mauro Enrique Tello Quiñónez and two other men.
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Raúl Lucio Hernández Lechuga Raúl Lucio Hernández Lechuga, alias "El Lucky" and "Z-16", is a former Mexican drug lord and one of the original founders of the criminal group Los Zetas. The government of Mexico had listed Hernández Lechuga as one of its 37 most wanted drug lords and offered the equivalent of over $2 million USD for information leading to his capture.
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Juárez Cartel The Juárez Cartel (Spanish: "Cártel de Juárez"), also known as the Vicente Carrillo Fuentes Organization, is a Mexican drug cartel based in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, across the U.S.-Mexico border from El Paso, Texas. The cartel is one of several drug trafficking organizations that have been known to decapitate their rivals, mutilate their corpses and dump them in public places to instill fear not only into the general public, but also into local law enforcement and their rivals, the Sinaloa Cartel. The Juárez Cartel has an armed wing known as La Línea, a Juarez street gang that usually performs the executions. It also uses the Barrio Azteca gang to attack its enemies.
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Guevarista Revolutionary Army The Guevarista Revolutionary Army (Ejército Revolucionario Guevarista, ERG) was a revolutionary, guerrilla group operating in Colombia. It formed in 1992 as an offshoot of the ELN.. It was named after and inspired by the Argentine Che Guevara.
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Cuerpo Tecnico de Policia Judicial The Cuerpo Técnico de Policía Judicial (PTJ) was Venezuela's largest national police agency. Created in 1958, it was responsible for criminal investigations and forensic services, as well as counter-narcotics. It was replaced by the Cuerpo de Investigaciones Científicas, Penales y Criminalísticas in late 2001.
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Manuel Cepeda Vargas Manuel Cepeda Vargas (13 April 1930 — 9 August 1994) was a lawyer and Senator of Colombia, gunned down in Bogotá on 9 August 1994 as part of a bloody repression of the Patriotic Union. A Communist party politician, he had been a Member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia from 1992 to 1994, and had served a sentence in prison because of his political ideology, charged for revolutionary activity.
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38th Street gang The 38th Street gang is an American criminal street gang in Los Angeles, California, composed mainly of Hispanic-Americans. The 38th Street gang is one of the oldest street gangs in Los Angeles and has been occupying its territory since the 1920s. They engage in many criminal activities. The Mexican Mafia controls and routinely uses 38th Street gang members to carry out their orders.
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Los Pelones Los Pelones ("The Bald Ones") is an enforcer gang originally part of the Mexican drug trafficking organization known as the Sinaloa Cartel, headed by the drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, Mexico's most-wanted man.
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Muerte a Secuestradores Muerte a Secuestradores (English: "Death to Kidnappers") or MAS, was a Colombian paramilitary group supported by drug cartels, U.S. corporations, Colombian politicians, and wealthy landowners during the 1980s in order to protect their economic interests and fight kidnapping. Muerte a Secuestradores has assassinated political opponents and community organizers, and waged counterinsurgency warfare against guerrilla movements such as the FARC-EP and the M-19.
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La Línea (gang) La Línea ("The Line") is an enforcer unit of the Juárez Cartel originally set up by a number of former and active-duty policemen, heavily armed and extensively trained in urban warfare. Their corrupt "line" of policemen were set up to protect drug traffickers, but after forming an alliance with Barrio Azteca to fight off the forces of the Sinaloa Cartel in 2008, they established a foothold in Ciudad Juárez as the enforcement wing of the Juárez cartel. La Línea has also been involved in extortions and kidnappings.
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Gerardo González Valencia Gerardo González Valencia (born  1976 ) is a suspected Mexican drug lord, money launderer, and former high-ranking leader of Los Cuinis, a criminal group based in Jalisco and allied to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). He is the brother of Abigael González Valencia (alias "El Cuini"), the former leader of Los Cuinis and the CJNG. He was allegedly responsible for coordinating international money laundering schemes by using shell companies to purchase assets in Latin America, Europe, and Asia.
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Los Boricuas (CMLL) Los Boricuas (Spanish for the Puerto Ricans) was a Mexican "Lucha Libre" (Professional wrestling) stable or group in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), one of Mexico's largest and the world's oldest professional wrestling promotions. The concept of the group was that a union of people born in Puerto Rico or in storyline terms "emigrated" to Puerto Rico, denouncing their Mexican heritage and embracing the Puerto Rican culture. The group was founded and led by Pierroth in 2000 and was together until the end of 2003 where it disbanded. In 2013 CMLL brought the concept back when they announced that a new Comandante Pierroth was putting together a new group of Boricuas, known as "Comando Caribeño" ("The Caribbean Commando"). The original team name referred to the Puerto Rican people, even though most of the wrestlers were not actually from Puerto Rico.
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Cochise County Cowboys The Cochise County Cowboys were a loosely associated group of outlaw cowboys in Pima and Cochise County, Arizona Territory in the late 19th century. The term "cowboy" had only begun to come into wider usage during the 1870s, and in the place and time, "Cowboy" was synonymous with "rustler". Cattle thieves frequently rode across the international border into Mexico and stole cattle from Mexican ranches, which they drove back across the border and sold in the United States. Some modern writers consider them to be one of the first and earliest forms of organized crime syndicates in American history.
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Los Fugitivos Los Fugitivos (The Fugitives) are a Mexican cumbia band of the 1990s. The group is characterized by their use of keyboard. The band formed in 1985 earned their first hit with their single "La Loca". Previously signed with Polygram, they have now joined Sony Discos.