Osiel Cardenas
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Osiel Cardenas, a suspected leader of a drug cartel (Cartel del Golfo), was arrested on March 14, 2003 in Matamoros, Mexico. He was a mechanic in Matamoros, where he also was selling cocaine, and became a "madrina" -an informant- for the Policía Judicial Federal, he entered the Gulf´s Cartel by helping Chava Gomez -then the capo-, he later took control by killing him. He formed the "Zetas" or Z´s his hit team by hiring the top elite´s mexican army troopers. He is currently directing the Cartel in La Palma-México´s top security prison- where he is prisoner.