Los Zetas Drug Cartel By Michael Evans

The document I chose to write about is called, Mexico: Los Zetas Drug Cartel Linked San Fernando Police to Migrant Massacres edited by Michael Evans. This document links the San Fernando Police case to the Ayotzinapa case. The similarity between these two cases is that the police is in collaboration with the drug cartels in taking parts of these kidnaps and killings. The facts of the San Fernando Police case are that 72 migrants were removed from an intercity bus in San Fernando and then were executed. The facts of the Ayotzinapa case are that 43 students disappeared and six were killed from Ayotzinapa Normal School. In the document, Evans introduces the “information note”, which are statements from members of Los Zetas. The statements summarize to saying that the police pretend to act as if they do not know what the drug

Officer Álvaro Alba Terrazas, told investigators that the police were paid by Los Zetas to take people who are in police custody to Los Zetas. However, he also mentions that the only officers who do not take that deal are the elderly officers and another officer named Óscar Jaramillo. Evans proceeds to mention that there are documents from the San Fernando Police case that are being withheld by the prosecutor. However, under the Mexico’s panel of Federal Information Commissioners, The prosecutor agreed to release the documents because withholding them violated the human rights and humanitarian law. Most important terms being used in this document are, collaboration which means working with someone to produce something. Another term is corruption, which means dishonest conduct by those in power. Human Rights, which is defined as a right that belongs to every person. The most used and central term of this article is drug cartels or Los Zetas, are defined as large organizations that specialize in drug transportation and human