@Hoss @rlier23 yes and no, the original members of los zetas were members of the mexican special forces, thier commander was contacted by (((osiel cardenas guillen))) (of sephardic jewish ancestry), leader of the gulf cartel, whom with influences got the contacted group of special forces to become the country's first "anti-cartel" trained group of the mexican military with more to follow, the training was provided to them by MOSSAD in israel, upon returning to mexico the group kept the facade of being "anti-cartel" while being on the gulf cartel's payroll as their strongarm tasked with gunning down the armed enforcers from rival cartels, the facade was short lived as the 50 operatives would quit the mexican army to work full time for the gulf cartel and recruit more members from police, mexican army and the guatemalan army.