Zetas and Cartels

Diverse elements of cyberspace have publicized that Mexican Marine Corps's capture of Martin Omaar Estrada Luna, the presumed the Zeta commander in Tamaulipas (the border state across from Texas). In at least one of Mexico's drug cartels, the Gulf Cartel, Zeta affiliation is openly acknowledged. Because the drug cartels exist to operate by wholesaling product in the United States, fear of the Zetas is moderate to high among border State residents on our side of The Line.

In Mexico, Zetas have been responsible for the high volume of murders/executions in the border states of Tamaulipas, Sonora and Baja California. The average Zeta is former Mexican military and trained by people who were trained at various military bases in the United States. He may be a threat to Mexican nationals but he is hardly a threat to most U. S. citizens. The reason is: we are the consumers of the product protected by him - the Zeta. The cartel jefes would be displeased if their soldiers began killing customers instead of the competition (real or imagined).

The Zetas , on occasion, make short trips into the United States but these trips are simply to guard the shipment of product through desolate regions of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. The only people the Zetas encounter on those trips are Border Patrol Agents. The Border Patrol, thanks to administrative rules starting from Janet The Clueless and going all the way back to Jimmy Carter's Leonel Castillo have neither the equipment, training or permission to deal with the Zetas.