"Mexico arrests Zetas drugs cartel suspect" By James

Mexico arrests Zetas drugs cartel suspect: Flavio MendezJanuary 18, 2011

            “The Mexican police arrested a suspect leader and founding member of the notorious Zetas drugs gang.”

            Flavio Mendez Santiago is thirty-five years old and was arrested on the southern state of Oaxaca. He was a former soldier and was accused of controlling the traffic of drugs and illegal immigrants in Mexico. There was a $1.2 million dollars reward for information leading to his arrest. He was classified as the thirty-seven most dangerous criminals in Mexico. Mendez was known as “El Amarillo” or “The Yellow One” and was arrested Monday night outside Oaxaca City with his illegal body guard. Mendez is accused that he joined the Gulf Cartel in 1993 and was to serve as a body guard for the cartel leader, Osiel Cardenas Guillen, before splitting to found the rival Zetas organization.

          The Zetas are one of Mexico’s feared drug cartels. They gained a reputation for extreme violence as they fought to take over the other cartels. Also they are known for smuggling South American cocaine and other drugs to the United States. They have made a huge profit by smuggling migrants from South and Central America to the United States. The Mexican defense ministry describes the gang as “the most formidable death squad to have worked for organized crime in Mexican history".

Source: BBC News
             http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12220885