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Can’t tell your players without a scorecard

10 November 2008

For the gangster-watchers among us, Blog Populi, Blog Dei provides a handy-dandy map of Zeta leaders broken down by state.

The Zetas, once again, are not an army, but just  run-of-the-mill gangsters.  They are more analogous to the    old “Five Families” of the American Mafia than Al Quada… the differences being Zetas don’t belong to an identifiable ethnic minority or necessarily have familial ties to each other. They’re probably more brutal than the old American Mafia of the Godfather movies, but other than not being able to comfortably assume that the names of their victims suggest ties to their organization, they’re probably going to do much the same as the old mobsters did… become quasi-legitimate over time, investing in whatever the Mexican equivalent of Las Vegas might be.

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  1. El_Roble's avatar
    El_Roble permalink
    19 December 2008 6:05 pm

    Well, I don’t know what to think about the Zetas anymore…I’m from Zacatecas, when I’m hear in the US. I hear all kinds of gossip, but when I’m there, I don’t see anything. Of course, I’m not rich, and they seem to target rich people.

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