Zetas Cartel Wants to Recruit Your Kids

[littlemissmartypants]

Don’t Panic, But Mexico’s Zetas Cartel Wants to Recruit Your Kids
BY ROBERT BECKHUSEN04.18.136:30 AM

As if bombs at the Boston Marathon weren’t enough, the money-hungry Zetas drug cartel in Mexico is making a big push to recruit Americans, the FBI warns. Only the bureau isn’t exactly sure the Zetas’ apple-pie recruitment drive is a real threat.

That’s the conclusion of a 2011 intelligence bulletin from the bureau’s San Antonio Field Office, recently obtained by Public Intelligence (.pdf). From 2010 to 2011, according to the FBI’s contacts, the Zetas “attempted to recruit U.S.-based members in Houston, Texas, to join Los Zetas’ war against the Gulf Cartel on both sides of the border.”

That includes running and distributing drugs, and diversifying the cartel’s criminal portfolio in the U.S. by running guns and targeting rivals. The cartel has also found a supplier of AK-47 variant rifles from Texas-based Tango Blast street gangs. It’s no wonder the Zetas use these guys. Tango Blast, like the Zetas, have a relatively decentralized structure, with no formal colors or strict hierarchy. This has allowed them to flourish into becoming the state’s largest gang and made them resilient against law enforcement efforts to break them apart.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/04/zetas-recruitment/?cid=co7259044

Love, Peace and Shelter. lmsp

[Common Sense Party]

1. Hey, at least someone wants to give them a job.

[BethanyQuartz]

2. I wonder if they offer a GI Bill for college?

After all, we trained some of them. Parents shouldn't think of this as their kids working for a drug cartel, it's more like joining the ROTC.

http://www.soaw.org/component/content/article/1/1994

The Zetas, hired assassins for the Gulf Cartel, feature 31 ex-soldiers once part of an elite division of the Mexican army - the Special Air Mobile Force Group. At least one-third of this battalion's deserters was trained at the School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Ga., according to documents from the Mexican secretary of defense.