Number Two Financial Operator Of The Zetas drug cartel Arrested
Valdemar Quintanilla Soriano, the number two financial operator of the Zetas cartel, was captured in the northern city of Saltillo in Coahuila state, where he was captured with a stash of money and weapons. Another Zetas member, Jose Guadalupe Yanez Martinez, was also arrested. (Photo Credit: shivaelektra)
The Zetas and the Gulf Cartel are still engaged in a bloody battle for control of drug smuggling routes to the United States. Colonel Ricardo Trevilla, spokesman for Mexico’s National Defense Secretariat, said “During the last months, Quintanilla Soriano often travelled to Monterrey in Nuevo Leon, Saltillo and Monclova in Coahuila to coordinate finance matters as well as the payment to authorities working for the criminal organization.”
The Zetas were formed by former Mexican special forces soldiers, and were previously employed by the Gulf cartel as hitmen. The Zetas have since split with their former bosses, and have been engaged in brutal turf wars for control of smuggling routes with them instead.
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