AUSTIN — The story of the Gulf Cartel's territory grab, led by its then-enforcers the Zetas, began in 2001. The cartel, led at the time by Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, now serving time in a U.S ...

New, horrific footage shows members of a Mexican drug cartel beheading hostages from a rival gang, marking the latest act of violence in the growing war over drug-smuggling territories in Mexico. T… ...

One of the most closely watched battles of 2010 was between the Zetas criminal syndicate and their former masters, the Gulf Cartel. The Zetas and the Gulf Cartel had held a tenous alliance since 2007, ...

The Zetas and Gulf Cartel are imposing a toll on travel between two states in eastern Mexico, in a case highlighting the extent of the incursion of organized crime into daily life where the state ...

During his time with the Gulf Cartel and the Zetas, Rejón said, he killed or ordered the killings of 30 people.

Former allies of the Gulf cartel, the Zetas went independent earlier this year, unleashing a turf battle along the northeastern border with the United States that has at times reached the level of ...

NUEVO LAREDO - Longstanding tensions between the Zetas paramilitary group and their old employers, the Gulf drug cartel, have exploded into a full-blown war, worrying U.S. and Mexican law ...

“They live off of extortion, kidnapping and protection money,” a source said of Mexico’s Gulf Cartel, which is reportedly linked to the recent kidnapping of four Americans.

Adding to the Zetas' legend, the group was originally founded by the Gulf Cartel as an enforcement arm and is seen as the first group of Mexican gangsters to use military-style tactics.

A Mexican security official says two alleged top members of the Zetas and Gulf drug cartels have been arrested through government efforts to quell violence in the border state of Tamaulipas.

The Gulf Cartel and The Zetas will no longer fight amongst ourselves, because we are now more united than ever; we want peace for Tamaulipas." Says the release published on November 11, 2014.

Former Gulf Cartel leader Osiel Cardenas Guillen once led Los Zetas, one of the country's most bloodthirsty gangs until its collapse.