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During his military career, Guzmán Decena received counter-insurgency training, acquired skills in explosives, and learned how to track down and apprehend his enemies from an elite combat group trained by the U.S. Special Forces and the Israel Defense Forces.
Although Guzman Decena was the youngest, he and Lazcano was put in charge by the instructor due to their combat experience during the Chiapas uprising earlier that year in January, also because Guzman Decena spoke fluent English and had spent part of his childhood in Texas, he was the translator.
Apr 15, 2012 · Fearful and suspicious, the boss hired Arturo Guzmán Decena (Z-1), a former elite Mexican military to create a squad of assassins to ensure their personal safety and eliminate or neutralize their enemies in Tamaulipas.
- Career and Military Defection
- Gómez Herrera's Execution
- Death
Guzmán Decena was born in a poor village in Puebla, Mexico on 13 January 1976, and finished middle school and high school before joining the Mexican military to escape poverty. His talents and aggressive behavior earned him a position with an elite Mexican military group called Grupo Aeromóvil de Fuerzas Especiales (GAFE), originally trained in cou...
Once Juan García Ábrego, the founder of the Gulf cartel, was behind bars in 1996, Ángel Salvador Gómez Herrera (a.k.a. El Chava) sought to take over the assets of the criminal organization along with Cárdenas Guillén. At first, both of them functioned well together: they bought off police officers, bribed politicians and soldiers, and managed to ta...
Guzmán Decena was shot dead by Mexican soldiers inside a restaurant on 22 November 2002 in Matamoros, Tamaulipas after being spotted by the Mexican military. Another account written by Jesús Blancornelas indicates that Guzmán Decena went to a restaurant, had a few strong drinks, snorted a line of cocaine, and then decided to visit his mistress Ana ...
Oct 6, 2023 · Serving in the elite Grupo Aeromóvil de Fuerzas Especiales (GAFE), the Mexican special forces, he received advanced training meant to prepare soldiers for anti-narcotics operations. This exposure would later serve him in ways the Mexican government hadn't anticipated. In the late 1990s, a significant shift occurred.
Los Zetas was named after its first commander, Arturo Guzmán Decena, whose Federal Judicial Police radio code was "Z1", [34] a code given to high-ranking officers.
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Feb 9, 2020 · Arturo Guzman Decena AKA "El Z-1" was captured just like the "Tiger from Santa Julia", life did a good job of granting him the whole: "I used to look like you, and how I look now, is how you will look in time".
