The New York Times
The Mexican Navy said Monday night it believed it had killed a man who it thinks may be a founder and the principal leader of the Zetas, one of the most violent criminal gangs to terrorize the country in years. The navy said in a statement that in a...
SF Gate
The Mexican navy nabbed a suspected Zetas cartel leader accused of involvement in some of the country's most notorious crimes in recent years, authorities said Monday. Salvador Alfonso Martinez Escobedo was arrested Saturday and is believed to have...
Al Jazeera English
09 Zeta drug cartel leader Heriberto Lazcano is also known as "El Verdugo", the Executioner, for his brutality [AP] Heriberto Lazcano, the leader of the Zetas drug cartel, has apparently been killed in a firefight with marines in the northern border...
The Dallas Morning News
Mexico The Mexican government is intensifying its efforts to weaken the Zetas paramilitary group, capturing one of the highest-ranking members and closing in on its co-leader, in moves that further heighten tension along the Texas-Mexico border. In...
USA Today
The Mexican navy says top Zetas drug cartel leader Heriberto Lazcano has apparently been killed in a firefight with marines in the northern border state of Coahuila, The navy says there is strong evidence the body of one of two men killed in the...
The Dallas Morning News
The capture of Martinez and escalation in violence in recent days throughout northern Mexico appears to be connected with the death of the nephew of one of the top leaders of the Zetas and subsequent death of the son of a leading politician in...