Los Zetas Inc.: Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico

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The rapid growth of organized crime in Mexico and the government’s response to it have driven an unprecedented rise in violence and impelled major structural economic changes, including the up to date passage of energy reform. Los Zetas Inc. asserts that these phenomena are an immediate and intended result of the emergence of the brutal Zetas criminal organization within the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas. Going beyond previous studies of the group as a drug trafficking organization, Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera builds a convincing case that the Zetas and equivalent organizations effectively constitute transnational corporations with business practices that come with the trafficking of crude oil, natural gas, and gasoline; migrant and weapons smuggling; kidnapping for ransom; and video and music piracy.

Combining vivid interview observation with in-depth analysis of organized crime as a transnational and corporate phenomenon, Los Zetas Inc. proposes a new theoretical framework for understanding the emerging face, new structure, and economic implications of organized crime in Mexico. Correa-Cabrera delineates the Zetas establishment, structure, and kinds of operation, in conjunction with the reactions to this new model of criminality by the state and other lawbreaking, foreign, and corporate actors. For the reason that Zetas share some characteristics with legal transnational businesses that operate within the energy and private security industries, she also compares this criminal corporation with ExxonMobil, Halliburton, and Blackwater (renamed “Academi” and now a Constellis company). Asserting that the elevated level of violence between the Zetas and the Mexican state resembles a civil war, Correa-Cabrera identifies the beneficiaries of this war, including arms-producing companies, the international banking system, the USA border economy, the USA border security/military-industrial complex, and corporate capital, especially international oil and gas companies.

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