Osiel Cárdenas

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Osiel Cardenas, a suspected leader of a drug cartel (Cartel del Golfo), was arrested on March 14, 2003 in Matamoros, Mexico. He was a mechanic in Matamoros, where he also was selling cocaine, and became a "madrina" -an informant- for the Policía Judicial Federal, he entered the Gulf's Cartel by helping Chava Gomez -then the capo-, he later took control by killing him. He stayed in control by telling his comrades "el que se crea bien verga lo mato a la chingada", which roughly means "Whoever believes that he is tough, I'll fucking kill him" His comrades were loyal to him up to the day he was captured in Matamoros, Tamaulipas. He was captured by the Mexican Army in a shootout that involved .50 caliber machine guns, reports of grenades and rocket-launchers in the battle have been stated in local newspaper El Bravo. He formed the "Los Zetas" or "Z's", his hit team, by hiring the top elite's Mexican army troopers. He is currently directing the Cartel in La Palma-México's top security prison- where he is prisoner. He is known to be a very dangerous man that still runs a drug cartel in the plaza of "the golf cartel"