An 18-year old Ecuadorian migrant who survived the massacre told officials that it was Los Zetas, a brutal drug cartel, that had kidnapped the group of Central and South American migrants.

The appearance of graffiti marked the area as Los Zetas territory, including “100% Zeta” painted on a stone arch welcoming visitors to the small town where the bodies were dumped, pointing to ...

Allende is a small town southwest of Piedras Negras, Mexico and is the site of a massacre by the drug cartel, Los Zetas. It is estimated that over 300 went missing or killed in March of 2011.

A former member of the Zetas drug cartel testified Monday in a federal courtroom in San Antonio that he witnessed about 80 executions in Piedras Negras.

Tavira said he was picked up, handcuffed and taken to a location at the edge of Piedras Negras where he saw more than 30 others held captive as part of what others have described as a Zetas ...

In April 2011 the Zetas intercepted several buses that were headed towards the border towns of Reynosa and Matamorros, kidnapped people riding in those vehicles and then executed them en masse in ...

Oct. 9, 2012 -- Zetas cartel leader Heriberto "El Lazca" Lazcano was killed during a gunfight with Mexican marines in Coahuila state, the Mexican Navy reported on Tuesday morning.