Mexico Strikes Back Against Cartel - Wall Street Journal [getdailynow.blogspot.com]
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By JOSÉ DE CÃ"RDOBA And NICK CASEY
MEXICO CITYâ€"The Mexican Navy said Tuesday its marines killed the leader of the country's most ruthless cartel in a gunfight, identifying him by his fingerprints, but in an embarrassing twist gunmen later burst into a funeral home and stole the dead man's body.
The theft of the body has delayed the process of identification and raised doubts among some that the cartel leader has been slain. A U.S. official said the U.S. was checking DNA samples provided by the Mexican government to confirm the identity of Heriberto Lazcano, known by his nicknames as Lazca or El Verdugo, (the Executioner). Mr. Lazcano, 37, deserted from an elite Mexican army unit and rose to head the Zetas, which are considered to be Mexico's most brutal drug cartel.
The death of Mr. Lazcano in a firefight along a road in the northern border state of Coahuila would be a huge victory for the Mexican government and another triumph for the navy, which has been responsible for many of the blows dealt to the country's powerful drug cartels.
An undated combo image made available from the Mexican General Attorney Office, shows Mexican Los Zetas cartel leader, Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, A.K.A. 'El Lazca.'
The name Zeta has become a byword for terror across Mexico. But most analysts said Mr. Lazcano's killing would not likely lead to a decrease in violence, but could actually increase drug-linked violence in the area.
A navy communiqué said a Navy patrol ran into a convoy carrying Mr. Lazcano on a road close to the town of Progreso, about 80 miles west of Laredo, Texas. The firefight began when the marines were attacked by grenades thrown from a moving vehicle. One navy marine was wounded, and two of the gunmen were killed. The navy seized an arsenal of weapons including rocket-propelled grenades.
In a news conference Tuesday, Coahuila Attorney General Homero Ramos said a group of gunmen raided the funeral home where the two bodies were being kept, stealing the cadavers.
Some Mexicans worried that the theft of the body would create a host of conspiracy theories as happened in 1997 when the late drug capo Amado Carrillo Fuentes, known as the "Lord of the Skies," died while undergoing cosmetic surgery to change his appearance. "Once more what could have been a success in the war against organized crime becomes a problem when the body is "stolen,"" wrote Juan Ignacio Gil Anton in a Mexican political blog. "It happened with the Lord of the Skies. Will it happen with Lazca?"
The killing of Mr. Lazcano is the third major blow to the Zetas in recent weeks. On September 26, Iván Velazquez Caballero, a Zetas kingpin known as "El Talibán" or Z50, was captured in a shootout in San Luis PotosÃ. That capture was followed on October 7 by the detention of Salvador MartÃnez Escobedo, who Mexican authorities blamed for the barbaric slaughter of 72 migrants on a secluded ranch in the border state of Tamaulipas in 2010.
The death of Mr. Lazcano may have also been tied to the recent killing, also in Coahuila state, of the son of the state's former Governor Humberto Moreira a former head of Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party, and close ally of Mexico's president-elect Enrique Peña Nieto.
Officials suspect the Zetas were responsible for the murder of José Eduardo Moreira, who was killed on Oct. 3. The government responded last week by deploying 1,500 navy, army and federal police to pacify the state, which was considered increasingly out of control. It is unclear if the surge led to the capture of Mr. Lazcano.
In the short term, experts believe Mr. Lazcano's death is likely to lead to a spike of violence as rivals within the organization fight for control while fending off attempts from rival cartels, a pattern that has been repeated with other criminal organizations. In particular, Mr. Lazcano's death will most likely boost the fortunes of the Sinaloa cartel, led by Mexico's most powerful drug dealer Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán.
The Sinaloa Cartel, allied with the diminished Gulf Cartel, has been fighting for control of drug routes in the northern states of Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, and Coahuila. Mr. Grayson says the Gulf Cartel, which has been, was weakened during a vicious war there in 2010, but has largely regained its footing in the state of Tamaulipas and may renew fighting, he says.
"I don't think the killing will reduce violence in the north, if anything it will accelerate it," says George Grayson, a Zetas expert at the College of William & Mary who wrote a book on the gang called "The Executioner's Men."
Mr. Lazcano's death also marks the end of an era for the Zetas. The group was started when Mr. Lazcano and another 30 or so army deserters became enforcers in the late 1990s for the Gulf Cartel, then led by Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, who was captured in 2003 and extradited to the U.S. in 2009. The formation of the Zetas led to greater militarization of drug cartel tactics, and greater violence.
"The introduction of the Zetas, with their specialized military background, increased the violence to never before seen levels," said Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, an expert on drug trafficking and the border at the University of Texas in Brownsville. "The Zetas brought with them a professionalization of the killing industry." Ms. Correa-Cabrera says that as a reaction, other drug trafficking organizations created their own Zeta-like enforcer wings.
Mr. Lazcano's death leaves the leadership of the organization in the hands of Miguel Angel Treviño, known as Z-40, who had been fighting with Mr. Lazcano over the leadership of the group.
In 2010, the Zetas broke with their onetime employers, the Gulf Cartel, and began a turf war that turned previously peaceful Tamaulipas into Mexico's most violent state. Homicides linked to drug trafficking leapt from 90 in 2009 to 1,209 in 2010.
The Zetas have branched out from drug trafficking into crimes such as extortion, smuggling of undocumented aliens to the U.S., and kidnapping. They are considered responsible for some of the worst atrocities of the drug-linked violence that has convulsed much of Mexico during the last six years, since President Felipe Calderón sent out thousands of troops and federal police to reclaim vast areas where the country's drug lords hold sway. Since then, more than 60,000 people have died in drug-linked violence, most of them victims of internecine conflict between warring cartels.
Under Mr. Treviño, the Zetas expanded their operations across many Mexicans states and throughout Central America, especially in Guatemala, according to a Mexican government profile of the organization. They Zetas have links to drug organizations in Colombia and Bolivia.
The U.S. has offered a $ 5 million reward, and Mexico has offered a $ 2.3 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Mr. Lazcano.
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